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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- The capital and largest city of Mozambique, in the extreme southern part of the country on the Indian Ocean. Founded as Lourenço Marques in the late 1700s, it was was renamed in 1976.
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- proper noun The
capital city ofMozambique
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- noun the capital and largest city of Mozambique
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MAPUTO July 22 Sapa at a conference on Friday in Maputo.
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MAPUTO (AFP) - Mozambican police Monday deployed across impoverished neighbourhoods in the capital Maputo to prevent fresh protests over food prices, after 10 people died in three days of rioting last week.
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In Madagascar, promising peace talks initiated in Maputo by an international mediation group eventually fizzled and today, protests were violently repressed by the transitional government.
Global Voices in English » Françafrique casts shadow in Gabon, Madagascar, and Mauritania 2009
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In 2005, Azagaia and his peers, a number of young MCs, founded a record label in Maputo called Cotonete Records (or “Q-tip Records”, in what must be a nod to the American rapper-producer [en] from the seminal group A Tribe called Quest).
Global Voices in English » Mozambique: House of the Flying Azagaias 2009
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Maputo is a beautiful city with some really fancy buildings.
Archive 2008-10-01 jen 2008
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Maputo is a beautiful city with some really fancy buildings.
Sightseeing in Maputo jen 2008
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Having finally decided to ignore the expatriate pessimism that threatened to engulf me in Maputo, I wanted to take a look at the rumor-shrouded district for myself.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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That article referred to a group of still-displaced Magude residents (the "Association of the Friends of Magude," deslocados then living in Maputo, the capital city) who had journeyed home to take part in the resumption of vukanyi celebrations after the end of Mozambique's sixteen-year civil war (1976-92).
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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I had been pinning my fieldwork hopes on Magude since the summer of 1992, when during a pre-dissertation research trip to Mozambique (spent mainly in Maputo, because of the war) I became fascinated with the upper Nkomati River and the sparsely documented histories of the people who had lived along its banks.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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During my stay in Maputo, for example, I was often advised of the futility of my research plans.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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