The Rhodesian mission in Lisbon (Portuguese: Missão da Rodésia em Lisboa), the capital of Portugal, operated from September 1965 to May 1975. It was a...
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Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence (redirect from Rhodesian declaration of independence)
intent to open its own diplomatic mission in Lisbon, separate from the British embassy there. The British and Rhodesians argued about this unilateral act...
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The Rhodesian Bush War, also known as the Second Chimurenga, was a civil conflict from July 1964 to December 1979 in the unrecognised country of Rhodesia...
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ministry) of the Rhodesian government. It was involved in running the Rhodesian mission in Lisbon and Rhodesia's unofficial embassies in the United States...
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The Rhodesian Front (RF) was a conservative political party in Southern Rhodesia, subsequently known as Rhodesia. Formed in March 1962 by white Rhodesians...
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White Zimbabweans (redirect from Rhodesians)
Zimbabweans, also known as White Rhodesians or simply Rhodesians, are a Southern African people of European descent. In linguistic, cultural, and historical...
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Flag of Rhodesia (redirect from Rhodesian flag)
flag of the country, but in 1972, the Rhodesian Olympic team raised the earlier pre-1953 dark Blue Ensign at the Olympic Village in Munich, while "God Save...
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The Rhodesian Security Forces were the military forces of the Rhodesian government. The Rhodesian Security Forces consisted of a ground force (the Rhodesian...
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Frank Mussell (category Recipient of the Rhodesian Legion of Merit)
Rhodesian Joint Planning Staff. In 1966 Mussell was sent to Lisbon, Portugal, where he joined the Rhodesian Diplomatic Mission as the first secretary (political)...
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Ian Smith (category Rhodesian Air Force personnel)
to open an independent mission in Lisbon; Portugal's acceptance of this in September 1965 prompted British outrage and Rhodesian delight. Amid rumours...
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going to Abel Muzorewa's United African National Council. Ian Smith's Rhodesian Front won all 20 of the white roll seats, with most of its candidates...
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elections were held in Rhodesia, renamed the year before from Southern Rhodesia, on 7 May 1965. The results was a victory for the ruling Rhodesian Front, which...
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Elizabeth, Queen of Rhodesia, her heirs and successors". However, the Rhodesian Front government of Prime Minister Ian Smith ceased to recognise the authority...
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Politics of Rhodesia (redirect from Rhodesian parliament)
The political party that held sway in the years after the unilateral declaration of independence was the Rhodesian Front, later known as the Republican...
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The Rhodesian dollar (R$ or Rh$, RHD) was the currency of Rhodesia between 1970 and 1980. It was subdivided into 100 cents. The dollar was introduced...
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Southern Rhodesia. The referendum came eight months after the 1922 Northern Rhodesian amalgamation referendum, where Northern Rhodesia had voted against union...
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£1 Rhodesian = US$2.8. In 1970, the pound was replaced by the dollar, at a rate of £1 Rhodesian = $2 Rhodesian, so $1 Rhodesian was US$1.40. In 1964, coins were...
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Berry, Bruce; Whitehead, Chris (28 February 2011). "Rhodesian flag inventory". Mesa, Arizona: Rhodesians Worldwide. Retrieved 6 March 2012. "Masvingo (Zimbabwe)"...
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Rhodesia and weapons of mass destruction (category Rhodesian Bush War)
biological agents. Rhodesian CBW use took place toward the end of Rhodesia's protracted struggle against a growing African nationalist insurgency in the late 1970s...
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De facto embassy (section Foreign missions in Taiwan)
overseas missions in Lisbon and Lourenço Marques (now Maputo) until 1975 and an "Accredited Diplomatic Representative" in Pretoria. The Rhodesian Information...
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Southern Rhodesians fought alongside the British in the Second Boer War and the First World War; about 40% of Southern Rhodesian white men fought in the latter...
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Zimbabwe Bird (category Birds in art)
Rhodesia, as well as on banknotes and coins (first on the Rhodesian pound and then on the Rhodesian dollar). It probably represents the bateleur eagle (Terathopius...
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Rhodesia Information Centre (redirect from Rhodesian Information Centre)
Rhodesian diplomatic missions were maintained in Lisbon, Lourenço Marques in Mozambique, Cape Town and Pretoria. The Rhodesian High Commission in London...
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the war's end, 26,121 Southern Rhodesians of all races had served in the armed forces, 8,390 of them overseas, operating in the European theatre, the Mediterranean...
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Southern Rhodesia (category Rhodesian Bush War)
British colony until 1980. However, the Rhodesian government issued a Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) in 1965 and established a fully independent...
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Rhodie (category Rhodesian diaspora)
Zimbabwean or expatriate Rhodesian. The term Rhodie was first used by British Army and civil service personnel in Rhodesia (renamed Zimbabwe in 1980) during the...
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Salazar 15 September - Harry Reedman arrives in Lisbon to set up the Rhodesian mission there. 7 November – Portuguese legislative election, 1965. Portuguese...
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Northern Rhodesia (redirect from 1959 Order in Council)
Southern Rhodesian politicians, but the British Government preferred a looser association to include Nyasaland. This was intended to protect Africans in Northern...
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António de Oliveira Salazar (category 20th-century presidents in Europe)
Lisbon Jewish community for 52 years, from 1926 until 1978. In 1943, Amzalak and Leite Pinto, under Salazar's supervision, initiated a rescue mission...
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