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Cape Colony

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Cape Colony
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(Placename) the name from 1652 until 1910 of the former Cape Province of South Africa
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Noun1.Cape Colony - a former province of southern South Africa that was settled by the Dutch in 1652 and ceded to Great Britain in 1814; in 1994 it was split into three new provinces of South Africa
Cape of Good Hope Province, Cape Province
Republic of South Africa, South Africa - a republic at the southernmost part of Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1910; first European settlers were Dutch (known as Boers)


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Leonard Guelke, "The Anatomy of a Colonial Settler Population: Cape Colony 1657-1750," The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 21, 3 (1988): 459-60, 463-64, 470.
Illegitimacy and family formation in colonial Cape Town, to c. 1850 by Malherbe, Vertrees C. / Journal of Social History
Wallace, Farming Industries of the Cape Colony (London, 1896) for aarbosje; Cape of Good Hope, Report of the Geological and Irrigation Surveyor, 1892 [G28-93], 12-13 for graafwater and C.
The supernatural state: water divining and the Cape underground water ... by Sittert, Lance van / Journal of Social History
The state-led opening of an underground water frontier in the arid (Karoo) interior of the Cape Colony in the two decades after 1890 brought this issue into sharp focus.
The supernatural state: water divining and the cape underground water ... by Journal of Social History
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