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The Early History of the Sultanate of Angoche

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2009

M. D. D. Newitt
M. D. D. Newitt
Affiliation:
University of Exeter
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Abstract

The sultanate of Angoche on the Moçambique coast was founded probably towards the end of the fifteenth century by refugees from Kilwa. It became a base for Muslim traders who wanted to use the Zambezi route to the central African trading fairs and it enabled them to by-pass the Portuguese trade monopoly at Sofala. The Portuguese were not able to check this trade until they themselves set up bases on the Zambezi in the 1530s and 1540s, and from that time the sultanate began to decline. Internal dissensions among the ruling families led to the Portuguese obtaining control of the sultanate in the late sixteenth century, but this control was abandoned in the following century when the trade of the Angoche coast dwindled to insignificance. During the eighteenth century movements among the Macua peoples of the mainland and the development of the slave trade in the Indian Ocean laid the foundations for the revival of the sultanate in the nineteenth century.

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Research Article
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The Journal of African History , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , July 1972 , pp. 397 - 406
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1972

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