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History of Mozambique in maps
Mozambique as it appears in 4 interactive history atlases, from 1890 to 1994: Mozambique. Each era below lists who ruled the land and when control changed, linked to the dated map that shows it.
MAP OF THE WORLD IN NOVEMBER 1975 These maps are reconstructed from published sources · The Berlin Airlift, 1948–1949 · North Atlantic Treaty: Algerian departments cease to apply from 3 July 1962 · Berlin’s four-power status and its termination · The rise and fall of the Berlin Wall · Cliopatria v0.2.1 historical polities · Decolonization of Asia and Africa, 1945–1960 · United Nations Command: the 1953 armistice · NATO membership chronology · Natural Earth v5.1.2 country geography · Natural Earth administrative references · The collapse of the Soviet Union · South Yemen: independence and alignment chronology · South Yemen: Soviet relationship, 1971 intelligence estimate
Source details US government historical publication. Historical facts cited; no source artwork or prose reproduced NATO, treaty footnote 2. Historical treaty facts cited; no artwork or prose reproduced US government historical publication. Historical facts cited; no source artwork or prose reproduced US government historical publication. Historical facts cited; no source artwork or prose reproduced Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY 4.0 · Selected dated records; documented component selection, unions and shared-edge extraction. US Department of State, Office of the Historian. US government publication United Nations Command. Historical facts cited; no source artwork or prose reproduced NATO. Historical facts cited; no artwork or prose reproduced Natural Earth contributors. Public domain · Full source components and holes retained; documented historical unions and repairs. Natural Earth contributors. Public domain US Department of State, Office of the Historian. US government publication US Department of State. US government historical publication US Department of State, FRUS 1969–1976, volume XXIV, document 182. US government historical publication This political-alignment geography uses national and administrative extents; it does not map every military front. Modern-reference perimeters are explicitly recorded where no more suitable reviewed historical geometry was adopted. All source parts and holes are retained.
The Soviet, Yugoslav, Czechoslovak, Sudanese and other historical unions remove later internal borders. Occupation and armistice lines retain their separate meanings.
South Yemen uses the 1969 source as a geographic proxy for earlier Aden/protectorates. The boundaries and status of individual protectorates are not resolved at this scale.
Israeli-controlled extents follow dated published source references. The coarse 1976–1982 record does not resolve each stage of the Sinai withdrawal, so chapter 10 uses the 1983 post-withdrawal source.
Dated assignments correct omissions across the legacy views: independent Algeria is non-aligned after July 1962; Greece and Turkey join NATO in 1952, and Spain in 1982. South Yemen is separate from North Yemen, with British administration before late 1967 and the Soviet-aligned Marxist government after 1969.
proxy: 1945–1990, later municipal exterior reference · proxy: Natural Earth v5.1.2 contemporary reference · reconstruction: 1945–1991 · reconstruction: 1945–1991 geographic union · reconstruction: 1952–1991 · reconstruction: 1953 · reconstruction: 1958–1989 · reconstruction: 1960–1991 · reconstruction: 1973–1975 · reconstruction: Postwar Yugoslav reference · vector: 1936–1986 · vector: 1953–2023 · vector: 1958–1959 · vector: 1967–1972 · vector: 1969–1975 · vector: 1969–1986 · vector: 1976–1978
Layer records and reconstruction methods
What was Mozambique before it was Mozambique? The sections below follow this
land through every era covered by the Maps of History atlases: who ruled it, what it was
called, and when control changed. Each line links to the dated map. Modern borders serve
as an approximation, as each atlas says on the map itself.
Mozambique · Industrial Revolution
1890 Colony or dependency — the opening position 1890 Colony or dependency
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Mozambique · WWI
APR 1917 Entente-aligned & imperial territories — the opening position APR 1917 Entente-aligned & imperial territories
WWI: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Mozambique · Cold War
COLD WAR: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Mozambique · Decolonization of Africa
When Mozambique won independence in June 1975 under Samora Machel’s FRELIMO, it inherited a country with only a handful of African graduates and a fleeing settler population. Almost at once, apartheid South Africa and Rhodesia armed the RENAMO insurgency. The devastating war continued until 1992, killing perhaps a million people, mostly through famine. The struggle against Portuguese rule had passed into a regional proxy war.
1945 Portuguese, Belgian, Spanish & Italian-ruled — the opening position 1975 Independent Africa
DECOLONIZATION OF AFRICA: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
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