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Basutoland

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Basutoland was a British Crown colony established in 1884 due to the Cape Colony's inability to control the territory. [1]

48 relations: Bechuanaland Protectorate, Berea District, Cape Colony, Charles Arden-Clarke, Colony of Natal, Crown colony, Edmund Charles Smith Richards, Edwin Porter Arrowsmith, Elizabeth II, God Save the Queen, Godfrey Yeatman Lagden, High commissioner, High Commissioner for Southern Africa, James MacGregor (minister), John Sturrock (colonial administrator), Leribe District, Lesotho, List of British monarchs, List of colonial governors of Nyasaland, List of governors of Uganda, Mafeteng, Mafeteng District, Marshal Clarke, Maseru, Maseru District, Mohale's Hoek District, Moshoeshoe I, Orange Free State, Order in Council, Parliament of the Cape of Good Hope, Philip Edmond Wodehouse, Pound sterling, Qacha's Nek, Qacha's Nek District, Queen Victoria, Quthing, Quthing District, Resident Commissioner, Robert Coryndon, Rolong tribe, Royal assent, Secretary of State for the Colonies, Sotho language, Sotho people, South Africa, Traditional African religions, United Kingdom, Zulu Kingdom.

Bechuanaland Protectorate

The Bechuanaland Protectorate was a protectorate established on 31 March 1885, by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in southern Africa.

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Berea District

Berea is a district of Lesotho.

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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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Charles Arden-Clarke

Sir Charles Noble Arden-Clarke (25 July 1898 – 16 December 1962) was a British colonial administrator.

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Colony of Natal

The Colony of Natal was a British colony in south-eastern Africa.

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Crown colony

Crown colony, dependent territory and royal colony are terms used to describe the administration of United Kingdom overseas territories that are controlled by the British Government.

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Edmund Charles Smith Richards

Sir Edmund Charles Smith Richards (1889-1955) was a British colonial administrator who was Resident Commissioner of Basutoland from 1935 to 1942 and Governor of Nyasaland from 1942 to 1947.

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Edwin Porter Arrowsmith

Sir Edwin Porter Arrowsmith CMG (23 May 1909 – 10 July 1992) was a British politician who served in several parts of the Commonwealth.

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Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms.

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God Save the Queen

"God Save the Queen" (alternatively "God Save the King", depending on the gender of the reigning monarch) is the national or royal anthem in a number of Commonwealth realms, their territories, and the British Crown dependencies.

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Godfrey Yeatman Lagden

Sir Godfrey Yeatman Lagden (1 September 1851 – 26 June 1934) was a British colonial administrator in Africa.

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High commissioner

High commissioner is the title of various high-ranking, special executive positions held by a commission of appointment.

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High Commissioner for Southern Africa

The British office of high commissioner for Southern Africa was responsible for governing British possessions in Southern Africa, latterly the protectorates Basutoland (now Lesotho), the Bechuanaland Protectorate (now Botswana) and Swaziland, as well as for relations with autonomous governments in the area.

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James MacGregor (minister)

James MacGregor (6 January 1829 – 8 October 1894) was a New Zealand presbyterian minister and theologian.

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John Sturrock (colonial administrator)

Sir John Christian Ramsay Sturrock (1875–1937) was a British colonial administrator.

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Leribe District

Leribè is a district of Lesotho.

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Lesotho

Lesotho officially the Kingdom of Lesotho ('Muso oa Lesotho), is an enclaved country in southern Africa.

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List of British monarchs

There have been 12 monarchs of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United Kingdom (see Monarchy of the United Kingdom) since the merger of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland on 1 May 1707.

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List of colonial governors of Nyasaland

List of Colonial Heads of Malawi (Nyasaland) (Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office) For continuation after independence, see: List of heads of state of Malawi.

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List of governors of Uganda

This is a list of military administrators, commissioners, governors and governors-general of Uganda.

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Mafeteng

Mafeteng is a city in Lesotho, and the Camptown (capital city) of the district of Mafeteng.

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Mafeteng District

Mafeteng is a district of Lesotho.

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Marshal Clarke

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Marshal James Clarke (24 October 1841 – 1 April 1909) was a British colonial administrator and an officer of the Royal Artillery.

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Maseru

Maseru is the capital and largest city of Lesotho.

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Maseru District

Maseru is a district of Lesotho.

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Mohale's Hoek District

Mohale's Hoek is a district of Lesotho.

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Moshoeshoe I

Moshoeshoe (c. 1786 – 11 March 1870) was born at Menkhoaneng in the northern part of present-day Lesotho.

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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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Order in Council

An Order in Council is a type of legislation in many countries, especially the Commonwealth realms.

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Parliament of the Cape of Good Hope

The Parliament of the Cape of Good Hope functioned as the Legislature of the Cape Colony, from its founding in 1853, until the creation of the Union of South Africa in 1910, when it was dissolved and the Parliament of South Africa was established.

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Philip Edmond Wodehouse

Sir Philip Edmond Wodehouse (26 February 1811 – 25 October 1887) was a British colonial administrator.

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Pound sterling

The pound sterling (symbol: £; ISO code: GBP), commonly known as the pound and less commonly referred to as Sterling, is the official currency of the United Kingdom, Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the British Antarctic Territory, and Tristan da Cunha.

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Qacha's Nek

Qacha's Nek is, since 1888, the camptown (capital) of Qacha's Nek District in Lesotho, only two kilometers from the South African border at above sea level.

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Qacha's Nek District

Qacha's Nek is a district of Lesotho.

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Queen Victoria

Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death.

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Quthing

Moyeni is the capital city or camptown of Quthing District in Lesotho.

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Quthing District

Quthing is a district of Lesotho.

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Resident Commissioner

Resident Commissioner is the title of several, quite different types of Commissioner in overseas possession or protectorate of the British Crown or of the United States.

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Robert Coryndon

Sir Robert Thorne Coryndon (2 April 1870 – 10 February 1925) was a British colonial administrator, a former secretary of Cecil Rhodes who became Governor of the colonies of Uganda (1918–1922) and Kenya (1922–1925).

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Rolong tribe

Barolong is a tribal name for the Tswana (Barolong) living in north west South Africa, principally in Mafikeng (the Barolong boo rra Tshidi).

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Royal assent

Royal assent or sanction is the method by which a country's monarch (possibly through a delegated official) formally approves an act of that nation's parliament.

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Secretary of State for the Colonies

The Secretary of State for the Colonies or Colonial Secretary was the British Cabinet minister in charge of managing the United Kingdom's various colonial dependencies.

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Sotho language

Sotho (Sesotho; also known as Southern Sotho, or Southern Sesotho, Historically also Suto, or Suthu, Souto, Sisutho, Sutu, or Sesutu, according to the pronunciation of the name.) is a Southern Bantu language of the Sotho-Tswana (S.30) group, spoken primarily in South Africa, where it is one of the 11 official languages, and in Lesotho, where it is the national language.

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Sotho people

The Basotho are a Bantu ethnic group whose ancestors have lived in southern Africa since around the fifth century.

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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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Traditional African religions

The traditional African religions (or traditional beliefs and practices of African people) are a set of highly diverse beliefs that include various ethnic religions.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Zulu Kingdom

The Kingdom of Zulu, sometimes referred to as the Zulu Empire or the Kingdom of Zululand, was a monarchy in Southern Africa that extended along the coast of the Indian Ocean from the Tugela River in the south to Pongola River in the north.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basutoland

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