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Maputo
Maputo, Mozambique Baía da Lagoa, Lourenço Marques A province and a city first named ‘Bay of the Lagoon’ (in English, Delagoa Bay), but renamed after the Portuguese trader, Lourenço Marques, who explored the area in 1544. It was little more than a trading post until a fort was built in 1787 from which the town developed. It became the capital of Portuguese East Africa in 1907 and of Mozambique on independence in 1975. It was renamed in 1976 after the Maputo River, itself named after a son of a local 18th‐century chief, Muagobe.
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JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Maputo." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Maputo." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O209-Maputo.html JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Maputo." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O209-Maputo.html |
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Maputo
Maputo •blotto, Giotto, grotto, lotto, motto, Otto, risotto, Watteau
•Cocteau
•molto, Sholto
•pronto, Toronto
•Ariosto
•auto, Oporto, Porto, quarto
•in toto, koto, Kumamoto, Kyoto, photo, Sesotho, Yamamoto
•Bhutto, Maputo, Pluto, prosciutto, ritenuto, sostenuto, tenuto
•Cousteau • putto • gusto • Pashto
•undertow • Erato
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"Maputo." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Maputo." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-Maputo.html "Maputo." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-Maputo.html |
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