The Dutch Cape Colony (Dutch: Kaapkolonie) was a Dutch United East India Company (VOC) colony in Southern Africa, centered on the Cape of Good Hope, from...
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The Cape Colony (Dutch: Kaapkolonie), also known as the Cape of Good Hope, was a British colony in present-day South Africa named after the Cape of Good...
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contracts to the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and had become full citizens (burghers). The introduction of Free Burghers to the Dutch Cape Colony is regarded...
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the onset of British rule in the Cape Colony, the preexisting population of European origin settled during the Dutch era was universally classified by...
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Cape Colony, also known as the Battle of Muizenberg (Dutch: Slag om Muizenberg), was a British military expedition launched in 1795 against the Dutch...
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Cape Colony. However, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) settled the area as a location where vessels could restock water and provisions. The Dutch East...
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days (17th century) of the Cape Colony, and the name derives from the initial settlers of the Cape being primarily Dutch. The style has roots in medieval...
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British colonies namely: Cape Colony (preceded by Dutch Cape Colony), Natal Colony, Orange River Colony and Transvaal Colony. After the colonies were...
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referred to as the Cape, a metonym for: Dutch Cape Colony, a colony of the Dutch East India company Cape Colony, a British colony in South Africa that...
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the Dutch Cape Colony which began from the 17th century, shortly after the arrival of Dutch settlers, who were led by Jan van Riebeeck. When the Dutch settled...
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Afrikaans (redirect from South African Dutch)
the Dutch vernacular of South Holland (Hollandic dialect) spoken by the predominantly Dutch settlers and enslaved population of the Dutch Cape Colony, where...
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Coloureds (category History of the Dutch East India Company)
Interracial mixing in South Africa began in the Dutch Cape Colony in the 17th century when the Dutch men mixed with Khoi Khoi women, Bantu women and Asian...
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Afrikaners (redirect from Dutch people in South Africa)
Southern African ethnic group descended from predominantly Dutch settlers first arriving at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652. Until 1994, they dominated South...
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History of South Africa (redirect from Governor-General of the Cape Colony)
at the Cape became known as the Free Burghers and gradually established farms in the Dutch Cape Colony. Following the Invasion of the Cape Colony by the...
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(1630–1654) Dutch Mauritius (1638–1710) Dutch Ceylon (1640–1796) Dutch Cape Colony (1652–1806) Dutch Malabar (1665–1795) Dutch Surinam (1667–1954) New Holland (Acadia)...
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Jan van Riebeeck (category 17th-century Dutch Cape Colony people)
Riebeeck Park. Hoërskool Jan van Riebeeck Dutch East India Company Cape of Good Hope Dutch Cape Colony Dutch pronunciation: [ˈjɑɱ vɑn ˈribeːk], Afrikaans...
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Boers (category Articles containing Dutch-language text)
"boer", which means "farmer" in Dutch and Afrikaans. In addition, the term Boeren also applied to those who left the Cape Colony during the 19th century to...
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station for Dutch ships sailing to East Africa, India, and the Far East. Jan van Riebeeck's arrival on 6 April 1652 established the VOC Cape Colony, the first...
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region. He also promoted territorial expansion in the Colony. The first non-Dutch immigrants to the Cape, the Huguenots, arrived in 1688. The Huguenots had...
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Slavery in South Africa (category Dutch Cape Colony)
South Africa existed from 1653 in the Dutch Cape Colony until the abolition of slavery in the British Cape Colony on 1 January 1834. This followed the...
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Natalia Republic (section Extent of the colony)
next Europeans to settle in the country were emigrant Boers from the Cape Colony, who came by land over the passes of the Drakensberg. These Voortrekkers...
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Olof Bergh (category 17th-century Dutch Cape Colony people)
His accounts of his travels to the interior of the Cape Colony are among some of the first Dutch writings to originate on South African soil. Olof Martini...
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Republic of Graaff-Reinet (category Articles containing Dutch-language text)
mounted commandos of the Dutch settlers reached the area where Graaff-Reinet currently lies. They moved east from the Cape Colony. The first farms were established...
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during the apartheid era. The Dutch East India Company established a colony at the Cape of Good Hope (the Dutch Cape Colony) as a resupply station for ships...
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frontiers of the Dutch Cape Colony in Southern Africa. The Trekboers began migrating into the interior from the areas surrounding what is now Cape Town, such...
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The history of the Cape Colony from 1806 to 1870 spans the period of the history of the Cape Colony during the Cape Frontier Wars, which lasted from 1779...
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to as the Cape, a metonym for: Dutch Cape Colony, a Dutch colony in southern Africa (1652−1795 & 1803−1806) Cape Colony, a British colony in southern...
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balance. In May 1908, the Orange River Colony took part in an inter-state conference which met at Pretoria and Cape Town, and determined to renew the existing...
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Dutch colonies or trading enclaves abroad, namely the Dutch Caribbean, the Dutch Cape Colony, the Dutch East Indies, Surinam, and New Netherland. Since the...
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originated among settlers at the Dutch Cape Colony in the 17th century, and is believed to have developed from the Dutch mattentaart, a cheesecake-like...
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