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Brief History. Inhabited since before recorded history, Mozambique came under the control of Portugal beginning in the 16th century. Portugal kept Mozambique closely tied to it economically but in the 1950s, Portuguese rule began to be protested by the native peoples. Beginning in 1961 and continuing for more than a decade, the Frelimo (Front for the Liberation of Mozambique) rebellion fought a guerilla war. Portugal had its own revolution in 1974 and thereafter agreed to support independence for Mozambique. In June 1975, independence was granted and a Marxist Frelimo government was installed, but during the 1980s, a movement to overthrow the Frelimo regime was organized and civil war erupted. The civil war came to an end in 1992 and in 1994, the country's first-ever multiparty elections were held.
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