Maravi
The Kingdoms and the Confederation of Maravi extended over large parts of Malawi and northern Mozambique. The name of the district Maravia in Tete Province notes the Maravi.
Originally the seat of the king of Maravi in Manthimba should have found just north of the present town of Tete in Mozambique. The royal title should be " Kalonga been" - " Karonga " must be wrong, since people in southern Malawi the consonant "r" can not speak. As the founding period of the kingdom Maravi is in 1480, when his heyday called the 16th century, ie the time before the arrival of the Portuguese. The fact that the Chewa have stayed around 1420/1480 in Malawi, corresponds to the result of a C-14 investigation. They should have worked iron, which they acted.
From the 16th century in turn is reported of two manors, one of Banda in Mankhamba near Nthakataka ( more to understand in which direction shaman and healer ) and another of Phiri in Manthimba (rather to be understood in the direction of chief and warrior ). The Banda and the Phiri are sub- tribes or clans of the Chewa. A unit of Maravi within the meaning of Malawi is assumed only for the 17th century. This period is considered the Golden Age. Are called names like King Mcepera Mwale, Mcocoma Phiri, Kampini Mbewe, Sosola Kalimakudzulu Phiri, but for which all data and detailed traditions missing, even from the 19th century. The area of Maravi should have included in its greatest extent from the fields of Tumbuka and Tonga at the lower Shire to the valley of the Luangwa, and the Zambezi River to Lake Malawi. The residents of Maravi, the Chewa, should have belonged to the " Phiri - matriarchy" - still exists in Malawi wife inheritance ( matrilineal ).
In the 19th century to the Chewa of Maravi by the neighboring Yao - an immigrant to Mangochi strain of slave hunters from Mozambique - caught and have been discharged for slavery in Zanzibar. However, this may not correspond to the facts, because the Yao hunted slaves for the Portuguese and Mangochi reached only at the beginning of the 19th century. You would have to carry over the Chewa remained only a short time because the British slave trade ended quickly, while the Arab slave traders came only up to 600 km away Nkhotakota on the northern Malawi.