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Originally a British colonial republic named Rhodesia, after its founder Cecil Rhodes, the Name Zimbabwe was established in 1980 after it gained independence from the United Kingdom. The word "Zimbabwe" has Shona dialectical origins and can be roughly translated from "ziimba remabwe" to mean the "great or big house built of stone boulders".

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