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- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe abstract "Place names in Zimbabwe, including the name of the country itself, have been altered at various points in history. The name Zimbabwe was officially adopted concurrently with Britain's grant of independence in April 1980. Prior to that point, the country had been called Southern Rhodesia from 1898 to 1964 (or 1980, according to British law), Rhodesia from 1964 to 1979, and Zimbabwe Rhodesia between June and December 1979. Since Zimbabwean independence in 1980, the names of cities, towns, streets and other places have been changed by the government, most prominently in a burst of renaming in 1982.The Zimbabwean government began renaming cities, towns, streets and other places in 1982, hoping to remove vestiges of British and Rhodesian rule. The capital city, Salisbury, was renamed Harare. Many other place names merely had their spellings altered to better reflect local pronunciation in Shona or Kalanga, as under white rule the spellings officially adopted often coincided with pronunciation in Sindebele. Most major cities and towns were renamed, but some places with an Ndebele majority—such as Bulawayo, the country's second city—were not. Some smaller towns retain their colonial-era names, such as Beitbridge, West Nicholson and Fort Rixon. Street names were changed wholesale, with British-style names, particularly those of colonial figures, being phased out in favour of those of black nationalist leaders, prominently Robert Mugabe, Joshua Nkomo and Jason Moyo.".
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- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Beitbridge.
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- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink British_South_Africa_Company.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Bulawayo.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Cashel,_Zimbabwe.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Category:Geography_of_Zimbabwe.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Category:History_of_Zimbabwe.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Category:Lists_of_place_names.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Category:Names_of_places_in_Africa.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Category:Zimbabwe_geography-related_lists.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Cecil_Rhodes.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Chegutu.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Chimanimani.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Chinhoyi.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Chipinge.
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- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Colleen_Bawn.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Craigmore,_Zimbabwe.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Cult_of_personality.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Edson_Zvobgo.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Esigodini.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Fort_Rixon.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Geographical_renaming.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Glendale,_Zimbabwe.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Great_Zimbabwe.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Gweru.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Harare.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Hwange.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Internal_Settlement.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Jason_Moyo.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Joshua_Nkomo.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Josiah_Tongogara.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Juliasdale.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Julius_Nyerere.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Kadoma,_Zimbabwe.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Kalanga_language.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Kenneth_Kaunda.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Kingdom_of_Mutapa.
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- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Lancaster_House_Agreement.
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- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Leopold_Takawira.
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- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Mashonaland.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Masvingo.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Matabeleland.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Matobo_District.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Matobo_National_Park.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Mbalabala.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Mbare,_Harare.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Mberengwa_District.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Mozambique.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Mutare.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Nelson_Mandela.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Northern_Ndebele_people.
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- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Nyanga,_Zimbabwe.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Responsible_government.
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- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Rhodesia_(region).
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Rhodesian_Bush_War.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Rhodesias_Unilateral_Declaration_of_Independence.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Robert_Blake,_Baron_Blake.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Robert_Gascoyne-Cecil,_3rd_Marquess_of_Salisbury.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Robert_Mugabe.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Samora_Machel.
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- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Tanzania.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink The_Herald_(Zimbabwe).
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Transliteration.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink West_Nicholson.
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- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Zimbabwe.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Zimbabwe_African_National_Union.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Zimbabwe_African_Peoples_Union.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Zimbabwe_Rhodesia.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLink Zimbabwean_Ndebele_language.
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- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe wikiPageWikiLinkText "List of placename renaming in Zimbabwe".
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- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe subject Category:Geography_of_Zimbabwe.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe subject Category:History_of_Zimbabwe.
- List_of_placename_renaming_in_Zimbabwe subject Category:Lists_of_place_names.