Sentence examples for Rozwi from high-quality English sources.

• Rozwi, also spelled Rozvi, former Karanga empire in southern Africa.

• That kingdom was in turn replaced by the Rozwi kingdom in the late 17th century.

• He declared his independence of Matope’s successor and founded a kingdom that he called Rozwi.

• By the late 17th century, the Matapa empire was overshadowed by the Rozwi empire of southwestern Rhodesia.

• The area of the Rozwi confederacy fluctuated, and its influence extended over much of present-day Zimbabwe and perhaps westward into Botswana and southward into northeastern South Africa.

• Those who speak Ndebele are concentrated in a circle around Bulawayo, with Shona-speaking peoples beyond them on all sides—the Kalanga to the southwest, the Karanga to the east around Nyanda (formerly Fort Victoria), the Zezuru to the northeast, and the Rozwi and Tonga to the north.

• Although attempts to drive the Portuguese from the Zambezi valley were unsuccessful until the late 17th century, when they were driven out by the armies of the Rozwi kingdom, this appearance of Portuguese power was deceptive: the Portuguese never had the resources to control the interior, and it was the Afro-Portuguese prazeros and the Rozwi Changamire dynasty who truly exploited the Mwene Mutapa’s weakness.