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Changamire Dombo
Changamire Dombo was the founder of the Rozvi Empire on the Zimbabwe plateau in the late seventeenth century. He began as a cattle administrator under the Mutapa ruler Mukombwe before breaking with him. In 1684 he defeated Mutapa and Portuguese forces at Maungwe and then drove the Portuguese from the plateau, supplanting the Mutapa Empire.
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