Information
Name: Portuguese Mozambique
Type: Polity
Nation: mozambique
Start: 1501
End: 1975
Portuguese Mozambique: All Data
This page is about the data available for this polity, the chronology of the events of the polity is available here.
The Portuguese gained control of the Island of Mozambique and the port city of Sofala in the early 16th century. They then slowly colonized whole modern-day Mozambique, its internal regions being occupied only in the early XX century. Mozambique gained its independence in 1975.
