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Rhodesia, known initially as Zambesia, [1] is a historical region in southern Africa whose formal boundaries evolved between the 1890s and 1980. Demarcated and named by the British South Africa Company (BSAC), which governed it until the 1920s, it thereafter saw administration by various authorities.
The official name of the country, according to the constitution adopted concurrently with the UDI in November 1965, was Rhodesia. This was not the case under British law, however, which considered the territory's legal name to be Southern Rhodesia, the name given to the country in 1898 during the British South Africa Company's administration of the Rhodesias, and retained by the self-governing ...
The designation "Southern Rhodesia" was first used officially in 1898 in the Southern Rhodesia Order in Council of 20 October 1898, which applied to the area south of the Zambezi, [10] and was more common after the BSAC merged the administration of the two northern territories as Northern Rhodesia in 1911. White settlers in Southern Rhodesia, 1922
North-Eastern Rhodesia was a British protectorate in south central Africa formed in 1900. [1] The protectorate was administered under charter by the British South Africa Company . It was one of what were colloquially referred to as the three Rhodesian protectorates , [ 8 ] the other two being Southern Rhodesia and Barotseland-North-Western ...
North-Western Rhodesia, in south-central Africa, was a territory administered from 1891 until 1899 under charter by the British South Africa Company. In 1890 the British South Africa Company signed a treaty with King Lewanika of the Barotse , one of the most powerful traditional rulers in the territory.
Map of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. As early as 1915, the British South Africa Company proposed amalgamating Southern Rhodesia and Northern Rhodesia, but this was rejected by the Southern Rhodesian legislature in 1917, as it might have prevented Southern Rhodesia obtaining self-government. [70]
The Guinea region is distinguished from the neighboring Sudan region by its rainforests and runs along the Atlantic coast from Guinea to Nigeria. Upper, Middle, Lower and Forest; Gold Coast, Slave Coast, Ivory Coast and Pepper Coast; Rhodesia (region) (Northern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia) Mayombe; The Congo Basin is the rainforest region
The Rhodesia region and colonial Rhodesia (1964−1980)—the location of present day Zimbabwe in southern Africa. The vernacular name 'Rhodesia' can refer to Northern Rhodesia and/or Southern Rhodesia collectively in pre-1964 contexts.