Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "White people first came to the region in southern Africa today called Zimbabwe in the 16th century, when Portuguese colonials ventured inland from Mozambique and attacked the Kingdom of Mutapa, which then controlled an area roughly equivalent to eastern Zimbabwe and western Mozambique. Portuguese influence over Mutapa endured for about two centuries before fading away during the 1690s and early 1700s (decade).During the 1880s and 1890s, the British South Africa Company initiated colonisation by whites, backed by a royal charter from Britain's Queen Victoria: company rule over the country began in 1890, when the Pioneer Column marched to Mashonaland, founded Fort Salisbury and settled in the area.The company domain was named \"Rhodesia\" after its founder, Cecil Rhodes, in 1895; the portion south of the Zambezi became officially called Southern Rhodesia in 1898. Concurrently with the expiry of the company's charter in 1923, Southern Rhodesia was granted responsible government by Britain, and became a self-governing colony."@en }
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- White_settlement_in_Zimbabwe_before_1923 abstract "White people first came to the region in southern Africa today called Zimbabwe in the 16th century, when Portuguese colonials ventured inland from Mozambique and attacked the Kingdom of Mutapa, which then controlled an area roughly equivalent to eastern Zimbabwe and western Mozambique. Portuguese influence over Mutapa endured for about two centuries before fading away during the 1690s and early 1700s (decade).During the 1880s and 1890s, the British South Africa Company initiated colonisation by whites, backed by a royal charter from Britain's Queen Victoria: company rule over the country began in 1890, when the Pioneer Column marched to Mashonaland, founded Fort Salisbury and settled in the area.The company domain was named \"Rhodesia\" after its founder, Cecil Rhodes, in 1895; the portion south of the Zambezi became officially called Southern Rhodesia in 1898. Concurrently with the expiry of the company's charter in 1923, Southern Rhodesia was granted responsible government by Britain, and became a self-governing colony.".