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Look up: zimbabwe

  1. Zimbabwe
    Zimbabwe is a country in central Africa. It has a total area of 390,580 km2. The climate is tropical and moderated by altitude with a rainy season from November to March. The terrain is mostly high plateau with higher central plateau (high veld); mountains in east. Natural resources are coal, chromium ore, asbestos, gold, nickel, copper, iron ore, vanadium, lithium, tin. The religion is 50% syncretic (part Christian, part indigenous beliefs), 25% Christian, 24% indigenous beliefs, and a few Muslim. The language is English (official); Shona and Ndebele.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  2. Zimbabwe
    [Noun] A country in southern Africa.
    Example: The runner from Zimbabwe is in the lead.
    Found on http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/glossary

  3. Zimbabwe
    [n] - a landlocked republic in south central Africa formerly called Rhodesia
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  4. Zimbabwe
    A country where there is probably some fish somewhere.
    Found on http://www.whitbyseaanglers.co.uk/rock-f

  5. Zimbabwe
    Landlocked country in south central Africa, bounded north by Zambia, east by Mozambique, south by South Africa, and west by Botswana. Government Zimbabwe is an independent republic within the...
    Found on http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/

  6. Zimbabwe
    Extensive stone architectural ruins 27 km/17 mi southeast of Victoria in Mashonaland, Zimbabwe. The site was occupied from the 3rd century AD, but the massive stone structures date from the...
    Found on http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/

  7. zimbabwe
    A republic in southern africa, east of zambia and botswana and west of mozambique. Its capital is harare. It was formerly called rhodesia and southern rhodesia. The region was under the administration of the british south africa company from 1889 to 1923 when it became a self-governing british colony. Zimbabwe was a member of the federation of rhod ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  8. Zimbabwe
    Republic of Zimbabwe noun a landlocked republic in south central Africa formerly called Rhodesia; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1980
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  9. Zimbabwe
    `Zimbabwe` , officially the `Republic of Zimbabwe`, and formerly `Southern Rhodesia`, the `Republic of Rhodesia` and `Zimbabwe Rhodesia`, is a landlocked country in the southern part of the continent of Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It borders South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the northwest, and Mozambique to the east. The official language of Zimbabwe is English, however the majority of the populat...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwe

  10. zimbabwe
    (from the article `Mozambique`) ...nyika, developed in the upper reaches of the Limpopo River. It was the earliest of the settlements featuring stone enclosures, or zimbabwes.The zimbabwes (`stone houses`) built in the 17th and 18th centuries by the Rozwi kings of southern Central Africa were royal kraals, an example being ... ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/z/8

  11. Zimbabwe
    landlocked country of southern Africa. It shares a 125-mile (200-kilometre) border on the south with the Republic of South Africa and is bounded on ... [46 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/z/8

  12. Zimbabwe
    Zimbabwe (zimbäb'wā) [Bantu,=stone houses], ruined city, SE Zimbabwe, near Fort Victoria. It was discovered by European explorers c.1870, and some believed it the biblical Ophir, where King Solomon had his mines. From 1890 to 1900 some 100,000 gold mining claims were staked out there,...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A08534

  13. Zimbabwe
    Zimbabwe (zim'bäbwā) , formerly Rhodesia,officially Republic of Zimbabwe, republic (2005 est. pop. 12,747,000), 150,803 sq mi (390,580 sq km), S central Africa. It is bordered on the north by Zambia, on the northeast and east by Mozambique, on the south by South Africa, and on the sou...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A085


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19 March 2010

This day in history:
Six English farm labourers were sentenced on 19th March 1834 to 7 years transportation to a penal colony in Australia for Trade Union activities. They were known as the Tolpuddle Martyrs. The tree under which the 'martyrs' met is now very old and reduced to a stump, but it has become a place of pilgrimage in Tolpuddle, where it is known as the 'Martyrs Tree'. A commemorative seat and shelter was erected in 1934 on the green by the wealthy London draper Sir Ernest Debenham. read more

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