Boror

Boror belongs to the forested country of northern Mozambique, where land routes and sheltered water connect the interior with the Indian Ocean. From the seventh to eleventh centuries, a chain of Swahili port towns developed along this coast and helped form a distinct urban culture and dialect. Merchants from Somalia, Ethiopia, Egypt, Arabia, Persia, and India later entered these networks. By the fifteenth century Sofala, Angoche, and Mozambique Island had become regional powers. Inland, the Makua and many other Bantu-speaking communities farmed, fished and worked iron. Vasco da Gama reached the coast in 1498, and Portugal began establishing trading posts in 1505.