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The Transvaal Colony lay between Vaal River in the south and the Limpopo River in the north, roughly between 22½ and 27½ S, and 25 and 32 E. To its south it bordered with the Orange Free State and Natal Colony , to its south-west were the Cape Colony , to the west was the Bechuanaland Protectorate (later Botswana ), to its north was Rhodesia ...
A number of states and administrative divisions have carried the name Transvaal. French map of the Transvaal and the border regions of southern Africa by Marius Chesneau (1899) South African Republic (1856–1902; Afrikaans: Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek), a Boer republic also known as the Transvaal in English; Transvaal Colony (1902–1910 ...
After several years of negotiations, the South Africa Act 1909 brought the colonies and republics – Cape Colony, Natal, Transvaal, and Orange Free State – together as the Union of South Africa. Under the provisions of the act, the Union remained British territory, but with home-rule for Afrikaners.
In this war, the Transvaal and Orange Free State were defeated and annexed by the overwhelmingly larger British forces, ceasing to exist on 31 May 1902, with the signing of the Treaty of Vereeniging. A new British dominion, the Union of South Africa , was established under the South Africa Act 1909 , in which the Transvaal and the Orange Free ...
2,026 × 1,972 (2.09 MB) JMK {{Information |description ={{en|1=Map of Zululand, Natal, Transvaal ect.}} |source =Image extracted from page 91 of ''British Rule in South Africa. Illustrated in the Story of Kama and his tribe, and of the war in Zululand'', by HOLDEN, William Clifford. Original held and digitised by the British Library.
It encompasses the period from 1797 to 1910, when present-day South Africa was divided into four British colonies namely: Cape Colony (preceded by Dutch Cape Colony), Natal Colony, Orange River Colony and Transvaal Colony.
On 31 May 1902, the Treaty of Vereeniging was signed with the government of the South African Republic, the Orange Free State government, and the British government, ending the war, and converted the ZAR into the Transvaal Colony. Following the establishment of the Union of South Africa in 1910, the Transvaal Colony became Transvaal Province.
The Province of Transvaal (Afrikaans: Provinsie van Transvaal), commonly referred to as the Transvaal (/ ˈ t r ɑː n s v ɑː l, ˈ t r æ n s-/; Afrikaans: [transˈfɑːl]), was a province of South Africa from 1910 until 1994, when a new constitution subdivided it following the end of apartheid.