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Namacurra is a small town in one of the districts of Zambezia, a province in the center of Mozambique.
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The Battle of Namacurra happened there in 1918 during World War I.
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Namacurra is a small town in one of the districts of Zambezia, a province in the center of Mozambique.
The Battle of Namacurra happened there in 1918 during World War I.
It lies on the former railway between Quelimane and Vila de Mocuba.
Zambezia is the second most-populous province of Mozambique, located in the central coastal region south-west of Nampula Province and north-east of Sofala Province. It has a population of 5.11 million, according to the 2017 census. The provincial capital is Quelimane.
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Namacurra District is a district of Zambezia Province in Mozambique. With a population of over 240,000 in 2017, the Namacurra District has undergone moderate population growth since the late 1990s, when its population was only approximately 160,000."Namacurra - Population Statistics, Charts, Map…". 2020-04-12. Archived from the original on 2020-04-12. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
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The Battle of Namacurra was fought during World War I in Portuguese Mozambique between the First Portuguese Republic and their British allies against the German Empire. It took place on July 1–3, 1918, at the Namacurra River near Namacurra. It was the deadliest engagement of German general Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck's campaign into Mozambique, and 209 of the British and Portuguese died.
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