interests of the free burghers, the social class of most of the Trekboers.: 26 Trekboers also traded with indigenous people. This meant their herds were... 7 KB (815 words) - 10:14, 11 April 2024 |
by Charles Collier Michell An aquatint by Samuel Daniell of Trekboers making camp Trekboers crossing the Karoo by Charles Davidson Bell It was largely... 54 KB (6,122 words) - 09:36, 27 March 2024 |
Dutch Cape Colony (section Trekboers) Gamtoos River as the eastern frontier of the colony, only to see the Trekboers cross it soon afterwards. In order to keep out Cape native pastoralists... 22 KB (1,765 words) - 06:46, 19 April 2024 |
assistance. Although wagon trains are associated with the Old West, the Trekboers of South Africa also traveled in caravans of covered wagons. Wagon trains... 8 KB (875 words) - 17:22, 10 June 2023 |
guns for use against the encroaching Europeans and the Griqua people. Trekboers from Cape Colony arrived on the western borders of Basutoland and claimed... 77 KB (7,764 words) - 20:14, 27 April 2024 |
Indonesia. Similar to the other Afrikaans-speaking group at the time, the Trekboers, Oorlam originally populated the frontiers of the infant Cape Colony,... 9 KB (883 words) - 06:21, 21 December 2023 |
Vaal River"). The British did not try to stop the Trekboers from moving away from the Cape. The Trekboers functioned as pioneers, opening up the interior... 37 KB (4,799 words) - 18:50, 9 March 2024 |
of Tunisia Nuer Pokot Rendille Sahrawis Samburu Somalis Tuaregs Toubou Trekboers Turkana Nukak Navajo Some Komi Ahir Altai people Baloch Balti Banjara... 22 KB (1,883 words) - 01:12, 23 February 2024 |
In 1824 farmers of Dutch, French Huguenot and German descent known as Trekboers (later named Boers by the English) emerged from the Cape Colony, seeking... 51 KB (6,501 words) - 02:14, 27 April 2024 |
to 1879) between the Xhosa Kingdom and the British Empire as well as Trekboers in what is now the Eastern Cape in South Africa. These events were the... 69 KB (8,825 words) - 15:24, 28 April 2024 |
and better living conditions. The participants, Trekboers ("migrating farmers"; the singular is trekboer) from the Orange Free State and Transvaal, are... 26 KB (3,890 words) - 20:38, 19 March 2024 |
Illustration of mixed-race "Afrikaner" Trekboer nomads in the Cape Colony, ancestral to the Baster people.... 34 KB (4,481 words) - 07:59, 28 April 2024 |
The Battle of Naauwpoort Nek refers to a clash between the Trekboers and Basotho warriors on 29 September 1865. Naauwpoort lies immediately to the north... 8 KB (879 words) - 22:26, 20 June 2023 |
An account of the first trekboers... 178 KB (21,321 words) - 16:54, 19 April 2024 |
population of 89,144 in 2014. Humpata was the primary destination of the Trekboers on the Dorsland Trek in the 1870s. These Afrikaners formed the majority... 6 KB (161 words) - 11:44, 5 April 2024 |
incorporation into one political unit. During this period the arrival of Trekboers, in what would become the Transvaal republic, marked the first contact... 10 KB (1,348 words) - 10:56, 20 March 2024 |
migrations and in the spread of Indo-European languages across Eurasia. Trekboers in southern Africa adopted nomadism from the 17th century. Some elements... 47 KB (5,165 words) - 15:50, 9 April 2024 |
presided over a small population when the tribe made contact with White Trekboers for the first time. As such, some say he could not have been King within... 12 KB (1,595 words) - 19:10, 5 March 2024 |
needed] Griqua, on the other hand, are descendants of Khoisan and Afrikaner trekboers, with contributions from central Southern African groups. The Griqua were... 86 KB (9,463 words) - 16:31, 27 April 2024 |