Southern Rhodesia

Southern Rhodesia was a colony in Zambezi and Zimbabwe Plateau (Central and Southern Africa) that lasted from 1923 to 1965 CE, about 42 years. Its people spoke Germanic languages (Gothic, Frankish, English, German, Dutch, Norse).

A self-governing British colony run by its white settler minority, which kept most of the best farmland under the 1930 Land Apportionment Act. It led the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland from 1953 to 1963.

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Facts

Dates

1923 to 1965 CE

Duration

42 years

Type

Colony

Region

Zambezi and Zimbabwe Plateau, Central and Southern Africa

Language family

Germanic

Capital

Salisbury

Came from

• Company Rhodesia 1890 to 1923 CE

Became

• Rhodesia 1965 to 1979 CE

Events in Central and Southern Africa during its time

• 1948 Apartheid becomes law
• 1960 Congo independence and crisis

Neighbours in Central and Southern Africa

• Republic of South Africa (apartheid era) 1961 to 1994 CE
• Kingdom of Buganda c. 1300 to 1966 CE
• Portuguese Mozambique 1505 to 1975 CE
• Portuguese Angola 1575 to 1975 CE
• Sultanate of Zanzibar 1856 to 1964 CE
• British Kenya 1895 to 1963 CE
• Madagascar 1960 CE to the present
• Tanzania 1961 CE to the present
• French Madagascar 1896 to 1960 CE
• Uganda 1962 CE to the present

Elsewhere in the world at the same time

• Ethiopian Empire (Solomonic dynasty) 1270 to 1974 CE, North and West Africa
• Portuguese Empire 1415 to 1999 CE, Europe
• United States 1776 CE to the present, North America
• United Kingdom 1801 CE to the present, Europe
• Haiti 1804 CE to the present, Mesoamerica and Caribbean
• Dutch East Indies 1800 to 1949 CE, Southeast Asia
• Commonwealth of Australia 1901 CE to the present, Oceania
• British Raj 1858 to 1947 CE, South Asia
• Indonesia 1945 CE to the present, Southeast Asia
• Empire of Japan 1868 to 1947 CE, East Asia

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