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77 relations: Afrikaner Calvinism, Afrikaner nationalism, Afrikaners, Andries Pretorius, Battle of Blood River, Bloemfontein, Boer, British Empire, Burgher (Boer republics), Calvinism, Cape Colony, Cape of Good Hope, Cetshwayo kaMpande, Coloureds, Diamond, Dingane kaSenzangakhona, Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo, Dutch Empire, Dutch language, Dutch Reformed Church, First Boer War, Front National (South Africa), Gerrit Maritz, Gold, Graaff-Reinet, Great Britain, Griekwastad, Griqua people, Griqualand East, Griqualand West, Hendrik Potgieter, History of South Africa, Impi, Klein Vrystaat, Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal, Land reform in South Africa, Lang Hans van Rensburg, Limpopo River, Louis Botha, Louis Tregardt, Lydenburg, Mpande kaSenzangakhona, Natal (province), Natalia Republic, National Archives and Records Service of South Africa, Nieuwe Republiek, Orange Free State, Orange River Convention, Philippolis, Piet Retief, ..., Piet Uys, Potchefstroom, Pretoria, Protestantism, Republic, Sand River Convention, Second Boer War, Separation of church and state, South Africa, South African Republic, Southern Ndebele people, State of Goshen, Stellaland, Swellendam, Transvaal Civil War, Treaty of Vereeniging, Trekboer, Union of South Africa, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Upingtonia, Utrecht, KwaZulu-Natal, Vaal River, Voortrekkers, Vryheid, Winburg, Zoutpansberg, Zulu people. Expand index (27 more) »
Afrikaner Calvinism
Afrikaner Calvinism is a theoretical cultural and religious development among Afrikaners that combined elements of seventeenth-century Calvinist doctrine with a "chosen people" ideology similar to that espoused by proponents of the Jewish nation movement.
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Afrikaner nationalism
Afrikaner nationalism is a political ideology that was born in the late nineteenth century among Afrikaners in South Africa.
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Afrikaners
Afrikaners are a Southern African ethnic group descended from predominantly Dutch settlers first arriving in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Andries Pretorius
Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus Pretorius (27 November 179823 July 1853) was a leader of the Boers who was instrumental in the creation of the South African Republic, as well as the earlier but short-lived Natalia Republic, in present-day South Africa.
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Battle of Blood River
The Battle of Blood River (Slag van Bloedrivier; iMpi yaseNcome) is the name given for the battle fought between 470 Voortrekkers ("Pioneers"), led by Andries Pretorius, and an estimated "10 000 to 15 000" Zulu on the bank of the Ncome River on 16 December 1838, in what is today KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
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Bloemfontein
Bloemfontein (Afrikaans and Dutch "fountain of flowers" or "blooming fountain"; also known as Bloem) is the capital city of the province of Free State of South Africa; and, as the judicial capital of the nation, one of South Africa's three national capitals (the other two being Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Pretoria, the administrative capital) and is the seventh largest city in South Africa.
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Boer
Boer is the Dutch and Afrikaans noun for "farmer".
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British Empire
The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.
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Burgher (Boer republics)
In the South African Boer republics of the 19th century, a burgher was a fully enfranchised citizen.
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Calvinism
Calvinism (also called the Reformed tradition, Reformed Christianity, Reformed Protestantism, or the Reformed faith) is a major branch of Protestantism that follows the theological tradition and forms of Christian practice of John Calvin and other Reformation-era theologians.
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Cape Colony
The Cape of Good Hope, also known as the Cape Colony (Kaapkolonie), was a British colony in present-day South Africa, named after the Cape of Good Hope.
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Cape of Good Hope
The Cape of Good Hope (Kaap die Goeie Hoop, Kaap de Goede Hoop, Cabo da Boa Esperança) is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula, South Africa.
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Cetshwayo kaMpande
Cetshwayo kaMpande (c. 1826 – 8 February 1884) was the king of the Zulu Kingdom from 1873 to 1879 and its leader during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879.
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Coloureds
Coloureds (Kleurlinge) are a multiracial ethnic group native to Southern Africa who have ancestry from various populations inhabiting the region, including Khoisan, Bantu speakers, Afrikaners, and sometimes also Austronesians and South Asians.
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Diamond
Diamond is a solid form of carbon with a diamond cubic crystal structure.
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Dingane kaSenzangakhona
Dingane kaSenzangakhona Zulu (ca. 1795–1840)—commonly referred to as Dingane or Dingaan—was a Zulu chief who became king of the Zulu Kingdom in 1828.
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Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo
Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo (1868 – 18 October 1913, commonly misspelled Dinizulu) was the king of the Zulu nation from 20 May 1884 until his death in 1913.
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Dutch Empire
The Dutch Empire (Het Nederlandse Koloniale Rijk) comprised the overseas colonies, enclaves, and outposts controlled and administered by Dutch chartered companies, mainly the Dutch West India and the Dutch East India Company, and subsequently by the Dutch Republic (1581–1795), and the modern Kingdom of the Netherlands since 1815.
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Dutch language
The Dutch language is a West Germanic language, spoken by around 23 million people as a first language (including the population of the Netherlands where it is the official language, and about sixty percent of Belgium where it is one of the three official languages) and by another 5 million as a second language.
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Dutch Reformed Church
The Dutch Reformed Church (in or NHK) was the largest Christian denomination in the Netherlands from the onset of the Protestant Reformation until 1930.
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First Boer War
The First Boer War (Eerste Vryheidsoorlog, literally "First Freedom War"), also known as the First Anglo-Boer War, the Transvaal War or the Transvaal Rebellion, was a war fought from 16 December 1880 until 23 March 1881 between the United Kingdom and the South African Republic (also known as Transvaal Republic; not to be confused with the modern-day Republic of South Africa).
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Front National (South Africa)
Front National (Front Nasionaal, FN) is a South African right-wing political party formed in late 2013 as a successor to the Federale Vryheidsparty.
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Gerrit Maritz
Gerhardus Marthinus (Gert or Gerrit) Maritz (1 March 1797 – 23 September 1838), b1c8d2, was a Voortrekker pioneer and leader, wagon builder.
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Gold
Gold is a chemical element with symbol Au (from aurum) and atomic number 79, making it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally.
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Graaff-Reinet
Graaff-Reinet is a town in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa.
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Great Britain
Great Britain, also known as Britain, is a large island in the north Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe.
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Griekwastad
Griekwastad (Afrikaans for "Griqua city") is a country town in South Africa.
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Griqua people
The Griqua (Griekwa, sometimes incorrectly referred to as Korana or Koranna) are a subgroup of Southern Africa's heterogeneous and multiracial Coloured people, who have a unique origin in the early history of the Cape Colony.
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Griqualand East
Griqualand East (Afrikaans: Griekwaland-Oos), officially known as New Griqualand (Dutch: Nieuw Griqualand), was one of four short-lived Griqua states in Southern Africa from the early 1860s until the late 1870s and was located between the Umzimkulu and Kinira Rivers, south of the Sotho Kingdom.
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Griqualand West
Griqualand West is an area of central South Africa with an area of 40,000 km² that now forms part of the Northern Cape Province.
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Hendrik Potgieter
Andries Hendrik Potgieter, known as Hendrik Potgieter (19 December 1792 – 16 December 1852) was a Voortrekker leader and the last known Champion of the Potgieter family.
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History of South Africa
The first humans are believed to have inhabited South Africa more than 100,000 years ago.
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Impi
Impi is a Zulu word for any armed body of men.
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Klein Vrystaat
Klein Vrystaat (Afrikaans for "Little Free State") was a short-lived Boer republic in what is now South Africa (around the town of Piet Retief).
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Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal
Ladysmith is a city in the Uthukela District of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
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Land reform in South Africa
The Native Lands Act of 1913 "prohibited the establishment of new farming operations, sharecropping or cash rentals by blacks outside of the reserves" where they were forced to live.
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Lang Hans van Rensburg
Johannes Jacobus (Lang Hans) Janse van Rensburg (12 August 1779 – July 1836) was a leader of one of the early Voortrekker groups.
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Limpopo River
The Limpopo River rises in South Africa, and flows generally eastwards to the Indian Ocean in Mozambique.
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Louis Botha
Louis Botha (27 September 1862 – 27 August 1919) was a South African politician who was the first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa—the forerunner of the modern South African state.
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Louis Tregardt
Louis Johannes TregardtFootnote (translated): Various opinions exist concerning the spelling of the surname which arrived with Louis' grandfather from Sweden.
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Lydenburg
Lydenburg is a town in Thaba Chweu Local Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa.
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Mpande kaSenzangakhona
Mpande (1798–1872) was monarch of the Zulu Kingdom from 1840 to 1872, making him the longest reigning Zulu king.
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Natal (province)
The Province of Natal (Provinsie Natal), commonly called Natal, was a province of South Africa from 1910 until 1994.
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Natalia Republic
The Natalia Republic was a short-lived Boer republic on the coast of Southern Africa, established in 1839 by Voortrekkers shortly after the Battle of Blood River.
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National Archives and Records Service of South Africa
National Archives and Records Service — institutional network, operating on a centralized and decentralized provincial basis under central government control.
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Nieuwe Republiek
The Nieuwe Republiek ("New Republic") was a small Boer republic which existed from 1884 to 1888 in present-day South Africa.
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Orange Free State
The Orange Free State (Oranje-Vrijstaat, Oranje-Vrystaat, abbreviated as OVS) was an independent Boer sovereign republic in southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century, which later became a British colony and a province of the Union of South Africa.
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Orange River Convention
The Orange River Convention (sometimes also called the Bloemfontein Convention) was a convention whereby the British formally recognised the independence of the Boers in the area between the Orange and Vaal rivers, which had previously been known as the Orange River Sovereignty.
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Philippolis
Philippolis is a small town in the Free State province of South Africa.
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Piet Retief
Pieter Mauritz Retief (12 November 1780 – 6 February 1838) was a Voortrekker leader.
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Piet Uys
Petrus Lafras Uys (more commonly known as Piet Uys) (1797–1838) was a Voortrekker leader during the Great Trek.
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Potchefstroom
Potchefstroom is an academic city in the North-West Province of South Africa.
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Pretoria
Pretoria is a city in the northern part of Gauteng, South Africa.
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Protestantism
Protestantism is the second largest form of Christianity with collectively more than 900 million adherents worldwide or nearly 40% of all Christians.
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Republic
A republic (res publica) is a form of government in which the country is considered a "public matter", not the private concern or property of the rulers.
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Sand River Convention
The Sand River Convention was a convention whereby Great Britain formally recognised the independence of the South African Republic.
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Second Boer War
The Second Boer War (11 October 1899 – 31 May 1902) was fought between the British Empire and two Boer states, the South African Republic (Republic of Transvaal) and the Orange Free State, over the Empire's influence in South Africa.
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Separation of church and state
The separation of church and state is a philosophic and jurisprudential concept for defining political distance in the relationship between religious organizations and the nation state.
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South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.
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South African Republic
The South African Republic (Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, ZAR), often referred to as the Transvaal and sometimes as the Republic of Transvaal, was an independent and internationally recognised country in Southern Africa from 1852 to 1902.
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Southern Ndebele people
The Southern African Ndebele are a Nguni ethnic group native to modern South Africa ethnicities who speak Southern Ndebele.
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State of Goshen
Goshen, officially known as the State of Goshen was a short-lived Boer Republic in southern Africa founded by Boers opposing British rule in the region.
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Stellaland
The Republic of Stellaland (Republiek Stellaland) was from 1882 to 1883 a Boer republic located in an area of British Bechuanaland (now in South Africa's North West Province), west of the Transvaal.
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Swellendam
Swellendam is the 4th oldest town in the Republic of South Africa, a town with 17,537 inhabitants situated in the Western Cape province.
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Transvaal Civil War
The Transvaal Civil War was a series of skirmishes in the South African Republic, or Transvaal—now part of South Africa—in the early 1860s.
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Treaty of Vereeniging
The Treaty of Vereeniging (commonly referred to as Peace of Vereeniging) was the peace treaty, signed on 31 May 1902, that ended the Second Boer War between the South African Republic and the Republic of the Orange Free State, on the one side, and the United Kingdom on the other.
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Trekboer
In the history of Southern Africa, the Trekboere (now referred to as "Trekboer" in English; pronounced) were nomadic pastoralists descended from European settlers on the frontiers of the Dutch Cape Colony.
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Union of South Africa
The Union of South Africa (Unie van Zuid-Afrika, Unie van Suid-Afrika) is the historic predecessor to the present-day Republic of South Africa.
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was established by the Acts of Union 1800, which merged the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland.
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Upingtonia
Upingtonia, or the Republic of Upingtonia, was a short-lived Boer republic in the area of present-day Namibia.
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Utrecht, KwaZulu-Natal
Utrecht is a town in the foothills of the Balele Mountains, in the northwestern corner of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
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Vaal River
The Vaal River is the largest tributary of the Orange River in South Africa.
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Voortrekkers
The Voortrekkers (Afrikaans and Dutch for pioneers, or "pathfinders" or "fore-trekkers") were Boer pastoralists from the frontiers of the Cape Colony who migrated eastwards during the Great Trek.
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Vryheid
Vryheid is a coal mining and cattle ranching town in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
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Winburg
Winburg is a small mixed farming town in the Free State province of South Africa.
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Zoutpansberg
Zoutpansberg was the north-eastern division of the Transvaal, South Africa.
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Zulu people
The Zulu (amaZulu) are a Bantu ethnic group of Southern Africa and the largest ethnic group in South Africa, with an estimated 10–12 million people living mainly in the province of KwaZulu-Natal.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boer_Republics
