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History of Mozambique in maps
Mozambique as it appears in 4 interactive history atlases, from 1890 to 1994: Mozambique. Each era below lists who ruled the land and when control changed, linked to the dated map that shows it.
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What was Mozambique before it was Mozambique? Below, every era of this land in the Maps of History atlases — who ruled it, what it was called, and when control changed — each line linked to the dated map that shows it. Modern borders stand in as an honest approximation; every atlas says so on the map itself.
Mozambique · Industrial Revolution
| Colony or dependency — the opening position | |
| Colony or dependency |
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Mozambique · WWI
| Entente-aligned & imperial territories — the opening position | |
| Entente-aligned & imperial territories |
Mozambique · Cold War
| NATO & core Western allies — the opening position | |
| Soviet-aligned states | |
| Non-aligned & neutral |
COLD WAR: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Mozambique · Decolonization of Africa
Mozambique won independence under Samora Machel’s FRELIMO in June 1975, inheriting a country with a handful of African graduates and a fleeing settler population. Almost at once, apartheid South Africa and Rhodesia armed the RENAMO insurgency, and a devastating war — perhaps a million dead, mostly of famine — ran until 1992. Liberation into destabilization: the Portuguese war of independence became the region’s war of proxy.
| Portuguese, Belgian, Spanish & Italian-ruled — the opening position | |
| Independent Africa |
DECOLONIZATION OF AFRICA: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
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