Portuguese Indian Ocean colony, independent after the FRELIMO war and Lisbon's 1974 revolution.
Portuguese Mozambique became independent as the People's Republic of Mozambique on 25 June 1975, following the Lusaka Accord of September 1974 which transferred power to FRELIMO after Portugal's Carnation Revolution.
The atlas holds 4 border frames for Portuguese Mozambique — the shape you scrub through changes in 1505 · 1897 · 1922 · 1945.
Newitt's authoritative history of Mozambique under Portuguese rule.
Broad modern African history for the wider colonial context.