Manthimba was the capital of the Maravi Kingdom. It was located at from the present village of Mtakataka in the

Dedza Dedza is the main township of Dedza District in the Central Region of Malawi. Description Dedza is located about 85 km south of Malawi's capital, Lilongwe, off the M1 road to Blantyre at a point where a trans-African highway from Johann ...

district, in the central region of

Malawi Malawi (; or aláwi Tumbuka: ''Malaŵi''), officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the west, Tanzania to the north and northeas ...

.Ogot, Bethwell A. Ogot (1992). ''Africa from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century''. Volume 5 of International Construction Management Series. UNESCO. .

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