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Definition of Mozambique

1. Noun. A republic on the southeastern coast of Africa on the Mozambique Channel; became independent from Portugal in 1975.

Definition of Mozambique

1. Proper noun. Country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Mozambique ''(República de Moçambique)''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Mozambique

1. An independent state in southern africa, south of tanzania and east of zambia, on the indian ocean. Its capital is maputo. It was formerly called portuguese east africa, the town of mozambique having been a portuguese trading fort early in the 16th century. Organised as a colony in 1907, it became an overseas province of portugal in 1951 and became independent in 1975. The name is a portuguese corruption of the arabic musa malik: musa (the name of an early african ruler) + malik (king). (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mozambique

Literary usage of Mozambique

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1884)
"The stagnation in agriculture and in the general development of the country immediately west of mozambique is in great part due to the feeling of insecurity ..."

2. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1894)
"By WILLIAM A. CHURCHILL, HBM Consul at mozambique. THK following account of a visit to the Sugar-Loaf Mountain, mozambique, by Mr. William Churchill, ..."

3. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1882)
"ON THE COAST LANDS AND SOME RIVERS AND PORTS OF mozambique. produce sufficient ... The examination of the coast north of mozambique was completed in three ..."

4. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1883)
"By HE O'NEILL, HM Consul, mozambique. Map, p. 440.* N August last I was informed by a high Portuguese authority at mozambique that there were good reasons ..."

5. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1885)
"REMARKS UPON TORTS ON THE mozambique COAST. only two or three knots an hour ; in other places the velocity was five or six miles an hour. ..."

6. Landmines: A Deadly Legacy by Arms Project (Human Rights Watch), Physicians for Human Rights (U.S.) (1993)
"Mines have taken a terrible human toll in mozambique. ... I. Background mozambique has been ruled since its independence in 1975 by the Front for the ..."

7. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1861)
"It is bounded E. by the mozambique channel, N. by Cape Delgado, lat,° 88' 8., ... Between Delagoa bay and Cape Corrientes, and from mozambique city to Cape ..."

8. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1884)
"The stagnation in agriculture and in the general development of the country immediately west of mozambique is in great part due to the feeling of insecurity ..."

9. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1894)
"By WILLIAM A. CHURCHILL, HBM Consul at mozambique. THK following account of a visit to the Sugar-Loaf Mountain, mozambique, by Mr. William Churchill, ..."

10. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1882)
"ON THE COAST LANDS AND SOME RIVERS AND PORTS OF mozambique. produce sufficient ... The examination of the coast north of mozambique was completed in three ..."

11. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1883)
"By HE O'NEILL, HM Consul, mozambique. Map, p. 440.* N August last I was informed by a high Portuguese authority at mozambique that there were good reasons ..."

12. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1885)
"REMARKS UPON TORTS ON THE mozambique COAST. only two or three knots an hour ; in other places the velocity was five or six miles an hour. ..."

13. Landmines: A Deadly Legacy by Arms Project (Human Rights Watch), Physicians for Human Rights (U.S.) (1993)
"Mines have taken a terrible human toll in mozambique. ... I. Background mozambique has been ruled since its independence in 1975 by the Front for the ..."

14. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1861)
"It is bounded E. by the mozambique channel, N. by Cape Delgado, lat,° 88' 8., ... Between Delagoa bay and Cape Corrientes, and from mozambique city to Cape ..."

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