Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Great Zimbabwe National Monument' has mentioned 'Zimbabwe' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
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| ruins of a historical city in Zimbabwe | WIKI |
| Great ZimbabweTower in the Great Enclosure, Great ZimbabweShown within ZimbabweShow map of ZimbabweGreat Zimbabwe (Africa)Show map of AfricaLocationMasvingo Province, ZimbabweCoordinates20xc2xb016xe2x80xb2S 30xc2xb056xe2x80xb2Exefxbbxbf / xefxbbxbf20.267xc2xb0S 30.933xc2xb0Exefxbbxbf / -20.267; 30.933Coordinates: 20xc2xb016xe2x80xb2S 30xc2xb056xe2x80xb2Exefxbbxbf / xefxbbxbf20.267xc2xb0S 30.933xc2xb0Exefxbbxbf / -20.267; 30.933TypeSettlementPartxc2xa0ofKingdom of ZimbabweArea7.22 square kilometres (1,780 acres)HistoryMaterialGraniteFounded11th century ADAbandoned15th century ADPeriodsLate Iron AgeCulturesKingdom of ZimbabweSite notes UNESCO World Heritage SiteOfficialxc2xa0nameGreat Zimbabwe National MonumentCriteriaCultural: i, iii, viReference364Inscription1986 (10th session) | WIKI |
| Great Zimbabwe is an ancient city in the south-eastern hills of Zimbabwe near Lake Mutirikwe and the town of Masvingo. | WIKI |
| The word great distinguishes the site from the many hundreds of small ruins, now known as "zimbabwes", spread across the Zimbabwe Highveld. | WIKI |
| [8] There are 200 such sites in southern Africa, such as Bumbusi in Zimbabwe and Manyikeni in Mozambique, with monumental, mortarless walls; Great Zimbabwe is the largest of these. | WIKI |
| Main article: Name of Zimbabwe | WIKI |
| Zimbabwe is the Shona name of the ruins, first recorded in 1531 by Vicente Pegado, captain of the Portuguese garrison of Sofala. | WIKI |
| [11] A second suggests that Zimbabwe is a contracted form of dzimba-hwe, which means "venerated houses" in the Zezuru dialect of Shona, as usually applied to the houses or graves of chiefs. | WIKI |
| The majority of scholars believe that it was built by members of the Gokomere culture, who were the ancestors of the modern Shona in Zimbabwe. | WIKI |
| In 1531, Vicente Pegado, Captain of the Portuguese Garrison of Sofala, described Zimbabwe thus:[10] | WIKI |
| [9] Notable features of the Hill Complex include the Eastern Enclosure, in which it is thought the Zimbabwe Birds stood, a high balcony enclosure overlooking the Eastern Enclosure, and a huge boulder in a shape similar to that of the Zimbabwe Bird. | WIKI |
| The most important artefacts recovered from the Monument are the eight Zimbabwe Birds. | WIKI |
| [23] Slots in a platform in the Eastern Enclosure of the Hill Complex appear designed to hold the monoliths with the Zimbabwe birds, but as they were not found in situ it cannot be determined which monolith and bird were where. | WIKI |
| [23] Chinese pottery shards, coins from Arabia, glass beads and other non-local items have been excavated at Zimbabwe. | WIKI |
| The first European visit may have been made by the Portuguese traveler Antxc3xb3nio Fernandes in 1513-1515, who crossed twice and reported in detail the region of present-day Zimbabwe (including the Shona kingdoms) and also fortified centers in stone without mortar. | WIKI |
| In 1506, the explorer Diogo de Alcxc3xa1xc3xa7ova described the edifices in a letter to the then King of Portugal, writing that they were part of the larger kingdom of Ucalanga (presumably Karanga, a dialect of the Shona people spoken mainly in Masvingo and Midlands provinces of Zimbabwe). | WIKI |
| J. Theodore Bent undertook a season at Zimbabwe with Cecil Rhodes's patronage and funding from the Royal Geographical Society and the British Association for the Advancement of Science. | WIKI |
| I was told by the then-director of the Museums and Monuments organisation to be extremely careful about talking to the press about the origins of the [Great] Zimbabwe state. | WIKI |
| Once a member of the Museum Board of Trustees threatened me with losing my job if I said publicly that blacks had built Zimbabwe. | WIKI |
| The Zimbabwe Bird, depicted on Zimbabwe's flag | WIKI |
| After the creation of the modern state of Zimbabwe in 1980, Great Zimbabwe has been employed to mirror and legitimise shifting policies of the ruling regime. | WIKI |
| [41][103] A tower of the Great Zimbabwe is also depicted on the coat of arms of Zimbabwe. | WIKI |
| Most of the carvings have now been returned to Zimbabwe, but one remains at Rhodes' old home, Groote Schuur, in Cape Town. | WIKI |
| In the early 21st century, the government of Zimbabwe endorsed the creation of a university in the vicinity of the ruins. | WIKI |
| Criterion (vi): The entire Zimbabwe nation has identified with this historically symbolic ensemble and has adopted as its emblem the steatite bird, which may have been a royal totem. | UNESCO |
| The Shona word Zimbabwe means the house in stone. | UNESCO |
| The divine soapstone figurines, the Zimbabwe Birds, found within the ruins are testimony to the use of the site as place of worship spanning from the ancient past to the present day. | UNESCO |
| The National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe (NMMZ), under the Ministry of Home Affairs, is the entity directly responsible for the management of the property. | UNESCO |