Naletale
Sign in to savethumb|Naletale wall Naletale (or Nalatale) are ruins located about 25 kilometres east of Shangani in Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe and east of the Danangombe ruins, close to the Somabhula Flats.
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- archaeological site
- Country
- Zimbabwe
- Located in
- Matabeleland South Province
- Location
- Matabeleland South Province
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- Naletale Ruins (5).jpg
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thumb|Naletale wall Naletale (or Nalatale) are ruins located about 25 kilometres east of Shangani in Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe and east of the Danangombe ruins, close to the Somabhula Flats.
The ruins are attributed to the Kalanga Torwa State and are thought to date from the seventeenth century, and were occupied through the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries during Rozvi rule. The ruins are the remains of the capital of the Butua kingdom's Torwa dynasty. In 1960, it was declared a national monument.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Naletale” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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