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RHODESIA

RHODESIA or the Republic of Rhodesia was an unrecognized state between 1970 and 1979. From 1980, it is the Republic of Zimbabwe.

Formerly, the territory in South Africa occupied and administered by the British South Africa Company, under the leadership of Mr. Cecil Rhodes, and founded by royal charter in 1889, hence the name it goes under. It was then bounded on the E. by Portuguese East Africa, on the N. by German East Africa and the Congo Free State, on the W. by Angola and German South-West Africa, and on the S. by Bechuanaland and the Transvaal. The region was traversed by the Zambesi, which divides it into Northern and Southern Rhodesia. The Northern had been little prospected, though the land was being cultivated, crops raised, and cattle-breeding commenced, besides a new industry started in fibre. The Southern was divided into two provinces, MASHONALAND and MATABELELAND.



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