Mount Fura is a mountain found on old maps where the gold mines and capital of the
Monomotapa kingdom was located. It is possibly to be identified as Stanford (1896) with modern
Mount Darwin in
Mashonaland Central
Mashonaland Central is a province of Zimbabwe. It has an area of 28,347 km² and a population of 1,152,520 (2012 census), representing about 8.5% of the total Zimbabwe population.
Geography
Background
Bindura is the capital of the ...
, Zimbabwe.
[''The Month: An Illustrated Magazine of Literature, Science'' 1909 p.424 ... Silveiral that the Monomotapa's head-quarters were in the neighbourhood of Mount Fura. This mountain has been definitely identified with the present Mount Darwin, situated some
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