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Fort Rixon
Zimbabwe
Fort Rixon, village, south-central Zimbabwe. It was founded as a British military post in 1896 during the Ndebele uprisings near the site of the Dhlo-Dhlo ruins. Prominent in local tradition, the ruins appear to be of 17th- or 18th-century origin, yielding Portuguese, Arab, and Jesuit relics. It is believed that Dhlo-Dhlo was a seat of the supreme chief of the Rozwi people before the arrival of the Ndebele. It is now an agricultural (corn [maize] and tobacco) and ranching centre and the focus of gold-mining activities in the area.
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