Gaza Empire
Gaza Empire | |
|---|---|
| 1824–1895 | |
Map of the empire at its peak | |
| Government | |
• Monarch | Soshangane (first) |
• Monarch | Gungunhana (last) |
| Establishment | 1824 |
| History | |
• Dissolved | 1895 |
• Established | 1824 |
• Disestablished | 1895 |
| Today part of | Mozambique |
The Gaza Empire (1824–1895) was an African empire established by Soshangane and was located in southeastern Africa in the area of southern Mozambique and southeastern Zimbabwe. The Gaza Empire, at its height in the 1860s, covered all of Mozambique between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers, known as Gazaland.