Tere

Tere is a stone-walled settlement among granite hills in the eastern country of the Zimbabwe plateau. Its masonry belongs to the wider tradition of stone building that flourished at Great Zimbabwe. Local Budya people call it Tere raMakate, the former village of Makate. Their tradition tells of his powerful charms and his defeat by Nehoreka, whose sister married Makate and secretly took away the source of his power.

Finds from the site suggest that it flourished around the fourteenth century, in the same broad period as Great Zimbabwe. Gold and imported ceramics found among its remains connect Tere with the craftsmen and exchange networks of the plateau, while its stone walls recall the authority of the people who made their homes on the hill.