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2	[[caption-width-right:328:It's not ''just'' a beach destination for UsefulNotes/{{South Africa}}ns.]]
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4	The Republic of Mozambique (''República de Moçambique'' in Portuguese), is a large country in East UsefulNotes/{{Africa}}, bordered by UsefulNotes/{{Tanzania}}, UsefulNotes/{{Malawi}}, and UsefulNotes/{{Zambia}} to the north, and UsefulNotes/{{Zimbabwe}}, UsefulNotes/{{Eswatini}}, and UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica to the west -- across the water sits UsefulNotes/{{Madagascar}}. Its capital and largest city, Maputo, was previously called Lourenço Marques until the independence, and is located at the southern tip of the country on the Mozambique Channel.
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6	Up until the arrival of [[UsefulNotes/{{Portugal}} Portuguese]] explorers and merchants, it was mostly inhabited (and it still is, albeit in a smaller proportion) by Bantu-speaking people who migrated from the Zambezi river between the 1st and 5th centuries AD. However, there aren't many traces of their way of living in TheMiddleAges, since they were mostly composed of agricultural communities and societies. They also had Swahili, Arab and Persian trade ports and settlements.
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8	The arrival of the Portuguese began with Vasco da Gama's journey in 1498. From the 16th century onwards, it became a Portuguese colony, albeit with lesser influence in world trade and exploration compared to India, Brazil and the Far East. In the early 20th century, its administration was conceded to some private companies, but it was not renewed when Portugal began its new regime by António de Oliveira Salazar.
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10	The independence war began in September 1964, by the guerrilla actions of the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frente de Libertação de Moçambique / FRELIMO). After 10 years of sporadic fighting and the change of Portugal's regime towards a democracry, FRELIMO achieved the full control of the territory and expelled the Portuguese, achieving full independence in 1975.
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12	The new government, led by Samora Machel, was a one-party state based on Marxist principles and backed by the Soviet Union and Cuba. However, after two years, a long and violent civil war began between the anti-Communist RENAMO militias and the Marxist FRELIMO regime that would last until 1992. Like in the early stages of the Colonial War, RENAMO occupied the rural areas and isolated the urban areas, which were occupied by the FRELIMO. The war caused, among other things, the collapse of the infrastructure, a failed central planning, the exodus of the remaining Portuguese people and the Mozambicans of Portuguese heritage, and, ultimately, widespread famine. Not to mention the mass human rights violations (which included the execution of tens of thousands of people and the sending of many other thousands to re-education camps where the majority died).
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14	In 1986, Samora Machel died in a plane crash, allegedly caused by the South African government. His successor, Joaquim Chissano, started to change things, by implementing a capitalist economy, beginning peace talks with RENAMO and elaborating a new constitution and implementing free elections. The year after the civil war ended, 1.5 million Mozambican refugees who had sought asylum in the neighbouring countries returned. In 1996, it became the first nation that was never part of the British Empire to join UsefulNotes/TheCommonwealth.
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16	!! Notable works:
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18	* Myth/SwahiliMythology
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20	[[AC:The Mozambican flag]]
21	https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mozambique_flag_7855.png
22	->The flag is based on that used by the FRELIMO, and uses all four Pan-African colors. The green, black and yellow stripes represent natural bounty, the African people, and mineral resources, respectively, and the white fimbriations in between signify peace. At the hoist side is a red triangle, symbolizing the struggle for independence. At its center is the golden star of Marxism, upon which is superimposed a book, a hoe and an AK-47 with a bayonet attached to the barrel (making this flag the only one in the world to incorporate a modern weapon), symbolizing education, agriculture and the defense of Mozambique's liberty, respectively.
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24	[[AC:The Mozambican national anthem]]
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26	->Na memória de África e do Mundo
27	->Pátria bela dos que ousaram lutar
28	->Moçambique, o teu nome é liberdade
29	->O Sol de Junho para sempre brilhará
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31	->Moçambique nossa terra gloriosa
32	->Pedra a pedra construindo um novo dia
33	->Milhões de braços, uma só força
34	->Oh pátria amada, vamos vencer
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36	->Povo unido do Rovuma ao Maputo
37	->Colhe os frutos do combate pela paz
38	->Cresce o sonho ondulando na bandeira
39	->E vai lavrando na certeza do amanhã
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41	->Moçambique nossa terra gloriosa
42	->Pedra a pedra construindo um novo dia
43	->Milhões de braços, uma só força
44	->Oh pátria amada, vamos vencer
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46	->Flores brotando do chão do teu suor
47	->Pelos montes, pelos rios, pelo mar
48	->Nós juramos por ti, oh Moçambique
49	->Nenhum tirano nos irá escravizar
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51	->Moçambique nossa terra gloriosa
52	->Pedra a pedra construindo um novo dia
53	->Milhões de braços, uma só força
54	->Oh pátria amada, vamos vencer
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58	->In the memory of Africa and the World
59	->Beautiful fatherland of those that dared to fight
60	->Mozambique, your name is freedom
61	->The Sun of June forever will shine
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63	->Mozambique, our Glorious Land
64	->Rock by rock constructing the new day
65	->Millions of arms in one only force
66	->O Loved fatherland we will be successful
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68	->United people from Rovuma to Maputo
69	->It harvests the fruits of the combat for the Peace
70	->The dream grows waving in the flag
71	->And goes cultivating in the certainty of tomorrow
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73	->Mozambique, our Glorious Land
74	->Rock by rock constructing the new day
75	->Millions of arms in one only force
76	->O Loved fatherland we will be successful
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78	->Flowers sprouting of the soil of your sweat
79	->For mounts, the rivers, the sea
80	->We swear for you, O Mozambique
81	->No tyrant will enslave us
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83	->Mozambique, our Glorious Land
84	->Rock by rock constructing the new day
85	->Millions of arms in one only force
86	->O Loved fatherland we will be successful
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88	[[AC:Government]]
89	* Unitary dominant-party semi-presidential constitutional republic
90	** President: Filipe Nyusi
91	** Prime Minister: Adriano Maleiane
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93	[[AC:Miscellaneous]]
94	* '''Capital and largest city:''' Maputo
95	* '''Population:''' 30,066,648
96	* '''Area:''' 801,590 km
97	(309,500 sq mi) (35th)
98	* '''Currency:''' Mozambican metical ([=MTn=]) (MZN)
99	* '''ISO-3166-1 Code:''' MZ
100	* '''Country calling code:''' 258
101	* '''Highest point:''' Monte Binga (2436 m/7,992 ft) (98th)

Context UsefulNotes / Mozambique