Mozambique Hotels
Hotels in the African nation of Mozambique are often required for tourists who need short term accomodation. Some may want to stay at high quality hotels in the nation. Some may want to stay at luxury hotels or cheap hotels. Some may want to stay at well known hotels. Some may want to stay at hotels that have good reputation. Some may want to stay at hotels that have good access to parking facilities. Some may want to stay at hotels that are located in urban or rural areas.
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Hotels in the nation of Mozambique are often needed for people who want a vacation.
Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique is a country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest. It was explored by Vasco da Gama in 1498 and colonized by Portugal in 1505. By 1510, the Portuguese had control of all of the former Arab sultanates on the east African coast. From about 1500, Portuguese trading posts and forts became regular ports of call on the new route to the east.
When Portuguese explorers reached East Africa in 1498, Arab
commercial and slave trading settlements had existed along the coast and outlying
islands for several centuries. From about 1500, Portuguese trading posts and forts
became regular ports of call on the new route to the east.
The Island of Mozambique
is a small coral island at the mouth of Mossuril Bay on the Nacala coast of northern
Mozambique, first explored by Europeans in the late 1400s.
The voyage of Vasco da Gama around the Cape of Good Hope into the Indian Ocean in 1498 marked the Portuguese entry into trade, politics, and society in the Indian Ocean world. The Portuguese gained control of the Island of Mozambique and the port city of Sofala in the early 16th century, and by the 1530s small groups of Portuguese traders and prospectors penetrated the interior regions seeking gold, where they set up garrisons and trading posts at Sena and Tete on the Zambezi River and tried to gain exclusive control over the gold trade. The Portuguese attempted to legitimate and consolidate their trade and settlement positions through the creation of prazos (land grants) tied to Portuguese settlement and administration. While prazos were originally developed to be held by Portuguese, through intermarriage they became African Portuguese or African Indian centres defended by large African slave armies known as Chikunda. Historically within Mozambique there was slavery. Human beings were bought and sold by African tribal chiefs, Arab traders, and the Portuguese. Many Mozambican slaves were supplied by tribal chiefs who raided warring tribes and sold their captives to the prazeiros.
Although Portuguese influence gradually expanded, its power was limited and exercised through individual settlers and officials who were granted extensive autonomy. The Portuguese were able to wrest much of the coastal trade from Arabs between 1500 and 1700, but, with the Arab seizure of Portugal's key foothold at Fort Jesus on Mombasa Island (now in Kenya) in 1698, the pendulum began to swing in the other direction. As a result, investment lagged while Lisbon devoted itself to the more lucrative trade with India and the Far East and to the colonisation of Brazil. During the 18th and 19th centuries the Mazrui and Omani Arabs reclaimed much of the Indian Ocean trade, forcing the Portuguese to retreat south. Many prazos had declined by the mid-19th century, but several of them survived. During the 19th century other European powers, particularly the British and the French, became increasingly involved in the trade and politics of the region.
By the early 20th century the Portuguese had shifted the administration of much of Mozambique to large private companies, like the Mozambique Company, the Zambezia Company and the Niassa Company, controlled and financed mostly by the British, which established railroad lines to neighbouring countries. Although slavery had been legally abolished in Mozambique, at the end of the 19th century the Chartered companies enacted a forced labor policy and supplied cheap – often forced – African labor to the mines and plantations of the nearby British colonies and South Africa. The Zambezia Company, the most profitable chartered company, took over a number of smaller prazeiro holdings, and established military outposts to protect its property. The chartered companies built roads and ports to bring their goods to market including a railroad linking present day Zimbabwe with the Mozambican port of Beira.
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Maputo (city)
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Mozambique is located on the southeast coast
of Africa. It is bound by Swaziland to the south, South Africa to the southwest,
Zimbabwe to the west, Zambia and Malawi to the northwest, Tanzania to the north
and the Indian Ocean to the east. The country is divided into two topographical
regions by the Zambezi River. To the north of the Zambezi River, the narrow coastline
moves inland to hills and low plateaux, and further west to rugged highlands,
which include the Niassa highlands, Namuli or Shire highlands, Angonia highlands,
Tete highlands and the Makonde plateau. To the south of the Zambezi River, the
lowlands are broader with the Mashonaland plateau and Lebomo mountains located
in the deep south.
The country is drained by five principal rivers and several smaller ones with the largest and most important the Zambezi. The country has three lakes, Lake Niassa or Malawi, Lake Chiuta and Lake Shirwa, all in the north. The major cities are Maputo, Beira, Nampula, Tete, Quelimane, Chimoio, Pemba, Inhambane, Xai-Xai and Lichinga.
The coastline has a length of 1,430
miles. Some 40 miles north of the South African frontier is the deep indentation
of Delagoa Bay. The land then turns outward to Cape Corrientes, a little north
of which is Inhambane Bay. Bending westward again and passing the Bazaruto Archipelago
of several small islands, of which the chief is Bazaruto, Sofala Bay is reached.
Northward the Zambezi River with a wide delta pours its waters into the ocean.
From this point onward the coast is studded with small islands, mainly of coral
formation. On one of these islands is Mozambique, and immediately north of that
port is Conducia Bay. Somewhat farther north are two large bays, Fernao Veloso
and Memba. There is a great difference in the character of the coast north and
south of Mozambique. To the north the coast is much indented, abounds in rocky
headlands and rugged cliffs while, as already stated, there is an almost continuous
fringe of islands. South of Mozambique the coastline is low, sandy and lined with
mangrove swamps. Harbours are few and poor. The difference in character of these
two regions arises from the fact that in the northern half the ocean current which
flows south between Madagascar and the mainland is close to the coast, and scours
out all the softer material, while at the same time the corals are building in
deep waters. But south of Mozambique the ocean current forsakes the coast, allowing
the accumulation of sand and alluvial matter. North of Fernao Veloso and Memba
the largest bays are Pemba (where there is commodious anchorage for heavy draught
vessels), Montepuesi and Tunghi, the last named having for its northern arm Cape
Delgado, the northernmost point on Mozambique's coast.
Cities, towns and villages
in Mozambique ; Ancuabe, Angoche, Balama, Beira, Mozambique, Bilene, Caia, Mozambique,
Catandica, Chibuto, Chicualacuala, Chicumbo, Chimoio, Chinde, Chokwe, Mozambique,
Cobue, Combomune, Cuamba, Dondo, Gurúè, Inhaca, Inhambane, Inharrime,
Inhassoro Lichinga, Mabalane, Macarretane, Macia, Magude, Maputo Province, Malema,
Manica, Mozambique, Manjacaze, Mapai, Mozambique, Maputo, Marracuene, Marromeu,
Matola, Maxixe, Mozambique, Metangula, Moatize, Mocuba, Mocímboa da Praia,
Montepuez, Mueda, Nacala, Namaacha, Nampula, Palma, Mozambique, Pemba, Mozambique,
Ponta d'Ouro, Quelimane, Salane, Tete, Ulongué, Vilanculos, Xai-Xai, Xinavane,
Zavala, Mozambique, Zavora, Zumbo
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