The Kingdom of Barue was a precolonial kingdom, centred around today's Báruè District in western

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. The kingdom first emerged as a provincial administration of the Kingdom of Mutapa. In 1512, António Fernandes recorded that the area of Barue had a king. This dynasty may have emerged in the 1480s. The waning of Mutapa power in the area coincided with the arrival of the

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, such that throughout its three-century existence, the Kingdom of Barue was a target of Portuguese attacks.

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;Citations ;Sources * {{cite book , last1=van Dokkum , first1=André , title=Nationalism and Territoriality in Barue and Mozambique , date=2020 , publisher=Brill , location=Leiden , isbn=978-90-04-42863-8 , chapter=The Kingdom of Barue: The Desire for Independence Barue History of Mozambique Former countries in Africa