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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 ...
Southern Rhodesia was a landlocked, ... Tati Concessions Land, a region detached from Matebeleland and annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate; References
The Rhodesian Bush War, also known as the Rhodesian Civil War, Second Chimurenga as well as the Zimbabwe War of Independence, [11] was a civil conflict from July 1964 to December 1979 [n 1] in the unrecognised country of Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe-Rhodesia and now Zimbabwe).
A panel from the Shangani Memorial at World's View in Zimbabwe, c1905 'Rhodesia' was named after Cecil Rhodes, the British empire-builder who was one of the most important figures in British expansion into southern Africa, and who obtained mineral rights in 1888 from the most powerful local traditional leaders through treaties such as the Rudd Concession and the Moffat Treaty signed by King ...
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 ...
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.
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.