| 词条 | Stone Town, Mozambique |
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Stone Town ({{lang-pt|Cidade de Pedra}}) is a town situated towards the northern end of the Island of Mozambique. Stone Town is grander than Macuti town in the southern part of the island.{{cn|date=April 2018}} Pottery found on Mozambique Island indicates that the town was founded no later than the fourteenth century. According to tradition, the original Swahili population came from Kilwa. The town's rulers had links with the rulers of both Angoche and Quelimane by the fifteenth century. In 1514, Duarte Barbosa noted that the town had a Muslim population and that they spoke the same Swahili dialect as Angoche.[1] Portugal established a trading fort in 1507. It was an important staging post on the maritime journey between Portugal and India. The Portuguese settlement (later known as Stone Town) was the capital of Portuguese East Africa, a distinction it held until 1898,[2] when Lourenço Marques (now Maputo) became the capital. Within Stone Town, the Chapel of Nossa Senhora de Baluarte and the Fort São Sebastião are two notable old buildings. Between 2010 and 2015, Stone Town's neglected buildings and faded grandeur had been turned around with infrastructure improvements and building restorations.[3] References1. ^Newitt, Malyn. "Mozambique Island: The Rise and Decline of an East African Coastal City" 2004. Page 23 2. ^{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tJ5FpkKHwmcC&pg=PA10&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=Rehabilitation of the Saint Sebastian Fortress: Island of Mozambique|first1=R. H.|last1=Dave|first2=A.|last2=Quane|first3=D. A.|last3=Perera|date=1 April 1987|publisher=UNESCO|accessdate=7 November 2017|via=Google Books}} 3. ^https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/africa/mozambique/articles/Mozambique-rises-from-the-ashes/ External links
2 : Populated places in Mozambique|Populated places established in 1507 |
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