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History Of Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe (/zɪmˈbɑːbweɪ, -wi/), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country
located in southern Africa, between the Zambezi and
Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa, Botswana,
Zambia and Mozambique. The capital and largest city is Harare. A country of roughly 16 million people, Zimbabwe has 16 official languages, with English,
Shona, and Ndebele the most commonly used.
Since the 11th century, present-day Zimbabwe has
been the site of several organised states and
kingdoms as well as a major route for migration and
trade. The
British South Africa Company of Cecil
Rhodes first demarcated the present territory during
the 1890s; it became the self-governing British colony
of Southern Rhodesia in 1923. In 1965, the
conservative white minority government unilaterally
declared independence as Rhodesia. The state
endured international isolation and a 15-year guerrilla
war with black nationalist forces; this culminated in a
peace agreement that established universal
enfranchisement and de jure sovereignty as
Zimbabwe in April 1980. Zimbabwe then joined the
Commonwealth of Nations, from which it was
suspended in 2002 for breaches of international law
by its then government and from which it withdrew
from in December 2003. It is a member of the
United
Nations, the Southern African Development
Community (SADC), the African Union (AU), and the
Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
(COMESA). It was once known as the "Jewel of
Africa" for its prosperity.
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