Sofala

Sofala · Mozambique

Sofala, Mozambique
Photo: Mallet, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons

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The site of a medieval Swahili gold-trading port whose Muslim merchants linked the Zimbabwean interior to the Indian Ocean world. Little survives above ground, but its name endures in coastal history.

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