Mapungubwe Northern Province South Africa
1288 CE to 1299 CE
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The center of Shona political and economic power shifts, under the rule of the Mutapa dynasty of prominent Karanga chiefs, from Mapungubwe in the Limpopo Valley northeast to …
The Shona-speaking inhabitants of the Limpopo Valley hilltop trading settlement of Mapungubwe, in what is now northern South Africa, abandon the site in 1290, when the locus of Shona power moves north of the Limpopo River.