Marondera
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Marondera, originally known as Marandellas, is a capital city of Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe, located about east of Harare.
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Place details
- Locality
- Marondera
- Region
- Mashonaland East
- Country
- Zimbabwe
- Population
- 66,204
- Timezone
- Africa/Harare
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Marondera
- Settlement.other_name
- Marandellas
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.image_shield
- Marondera.jpg
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Zimbabwe
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Mashonaland East
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Marondera
- Settlement.leader_name
- Josiah Oswald Musuwo
- Settlement.leader_title1
- Town Clerk (Longest serving Town Clerk in Zimbabwe )
- Settlement.established_title
- Village
- Settlement.established_date
- 1913
- Settlement.established_title2
- Town
- Settlement.established_date2
- 1943
- Settlement.established_title3
- City
- Settlement.established_date3
- 1982
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Country
- Zimbabwe
- Located in
- Mashonaland East Province
- Population
- 52283
- Elevation
- 1668
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Capital of
- Mashonaland East Province
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- inception
- 1913-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Demographics
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Marondera, originally known as Marandellas, is a capital city of Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe, located about east of Harare.
== History == It was first known as Marandella's Kraal, corrupted from Marondera, chief of the ruling VaRozvi people who lived in the area. British colonialists as they were colonizing Zimbabwe, first used it as a rest stop on the way to Harare. Later destroyed in the Shona resistance of 1896, the town was moved 4 miles (6 km) north to the Beira–Bulawayo railway line.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Marondera” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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