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    Rhodesia, known initially as Zambesia, is a historical region in southern Africa whose formal boundaries evolved between the 1890s and 1980. Demarcated...
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    Southern Rhodesia was a landlocked self-governing British Crown colony in southern Africa, established in 1923 and consisting of British South Africa Company...
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    empires. The British South Africa Company of Cecil Rhodes demarcated the Rhodesia region in 1890 when they conquered Mashonaland and later in 1893 Matabeleland...
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  • the colony of Rhodesia, and before that the colony of Southern Rhodesia. Rhodesia may also refer to: Rhodesia (region), a historical region in southern...
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    Northern Rhodesia was a British protectorate in Southern Africa, now the independent country of Zambia. It was formed in 1911 by amalgamating the two earlier...
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    The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, also known as the Central African Federation (CAF), was a colonial federation that consisted of three southern...
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    Coast and Pepper Coast Rhodesia (region) (Northern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia) Mayombe The Congo Basin is the rainforest region The Chad Basin The Chad...
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    Africa Company, to form Northern Rhodesia in 1911. The colonisation of the region that would become North-Eastern Rhodesia began in 1890. Joseph Thompson...
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  • activities in the region, leading to the colonial era in Southern Rhodesia. In 1965, the colonial government declared itself independent as Rhodesia, but largely...
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    Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) was a statement adopted by the Cabinet of Rhodesia on 11 November 1965, announcing that Rhodesia...
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    The prime minister of Rhodesia (Southern Rhodesia before 1964) was the head of government of Rhodesia. Rhodesia, which had become a self-governing colony...
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  • Federation of Nigeria Rhodesia (region) Mashonaland Matabeleland Northern Rhodesia Nyasaland Southern Rhodesia Zimbabwe Rhodesia Oregon Country Seychelles...
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    July 1964 to December 1979 in the unrecognised country of Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe-Rhodesia and now Zimbabwe). The conflict pitted three forces against...
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  • from Britain on 24 October 1964. Northern Rhodesia became a British sphere of influence in the present-day region of Zambia in 1888, and was officially proclaimed...
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    until 1848. The Californias The Carolinas The Dakotas The Floridas Rhodesia (region) The Virginias "Early flags". Government of Canada. Retrieved 2021-01-15...
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    British South Africa Company founded the southern African territory of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe and Zambia), which the company named after him in 1895. He...
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  • António Fernandes was the first European to discover the region. In 1891, before Southern Rhodesia was established as a territory, it was estimated that...
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    Southern Rhodesia, then a self-governing colony of the United Kingdom that is located in the now-independent Zimbabwe, entered World War II along with...
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  • Zambia (Northern Rhodesia) This page presents a simple timeline of important events in Zambian History (formerly Northern Rhodesia). 1885 - Berlin Conference...
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    holidays in Rhodesia, a historical region in southern Africa equivalent to today's Zimbabwe and Zambia—formerly Southern and Northern Rhodesia, respectively—were...
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    Rhodesia is a village and civil parish in the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire, England. The village lies just west of the town of Worksop, and approximately...
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    Second Boer War. British settlement of Rhodesia continued, and by October 1923, the territory of Southern Rhodesia was annexed to the Crown. The Ndebele...
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    The Rhodesia cricket team played first-class cricket and represented originally the British colony of Southern Rhodesia and later the unilaterally independent...
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    rule. Northern Rhodesia was colonized in the 1890s by the British South Africa Company, otherwise known as BSAC. Initially, Northern Rhodesia was split into...
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    white rule in the region. During the Company-rule period in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, English was established as Rhodesia's official language...
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    Rhodesia. In 1895, Rhodes asked his American scout Frederick Russell Burnham to look for minerals and ways to improve river navigation in the region,...
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    BSAC took formal control of the region around Lusaka through the protectorate of Barotziland–North-Western Rhodesia, named after Rhodes, in 1899. The...
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    the British colonised the region into the British protectorates of Barotziland–North-Western Rhodesia and North-Eastern Rhodesia towards the end of the 19th...
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    Godfrey Huggins (category Prime Ministers of Rhodesia)
    Minister of Southern Rhodesia from 1933 to 1953 and remained in office as the first Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland until October...
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    Portuguese colonial empire. Shortly after the 1978 Internal Settlement in Rhodesia, in which he was instrumental, he was implicated in the Muldergate Scandal...
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