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Shoshong Hills
Shoshong Hills is a rugged granitic mountain range surrounding Shoshong village in Botswana's Central District. Serving as the formidable capital of the Bangwato kingdom under Kgosi Sekgoma I and later Kgosi Khama III from the 1840s to 1889, Shoshong was once the largest settlement in Southern Africa, hosting famed European explorers like David Livingstone and Robert Moffat. The overgrown mountain gorges, littered with 19th-century stone walling, missionary ruins, and old battlegrounds, are steeped in local folklore regarding warrior spirits, phantom gunfire, and ancestral guardians.