Trans·vaal

(trăns-väl′, trănz-)

A region of northeast South Africa. Inhabited by Bantu peoples, the area was settled by Boer farmers who formed an independent state, called the South African Republic, in the 1850s. Great Britain annexed the territory in 1877, and the discovery of gold in 1886 led to an influx of settlers, further tensions between the British and the Boers, and the eventual formation of the Transvaal as a crown colony (1902) after the Boer War. Transvaal became a part of South Africa in 1910.

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Transvaal

(trænzˈvɑːl)

(Placename) former province of NE South Africa: colonized by the Boers after the Great Trek (1836); became a British colony in 1902; joined South Africa in 1910; replaced in 1994 for administrative purposes by a new system of provinces (Eastern Transvaal (later Mpumalanga), Northern Transvaal (later Limpopo), Gauteng, and North West province). Capital: Pretoria

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Trans•vaal

(trænsˈvɑl, trænz-)

n.

a province in the NE Republic of South Africa. 11,885,000; 110,450 sq. mi. (286,066 sq. km). Cap.: Pretoria.

Trans•vaal′er, n.

Trans•vaal′i•an, adj.

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Noun

Transvaal - a province of northeastern South Africa originally inhabited by Africans who spoke Bantu; colonized by the Boers

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)

Witwatersrand, Reef, Rand - a rocky region in the southern Transvaal in northeastern South Africa; contains rich gold deposits and coal and manganese

Translations

Transvaal

[ˈtrænzvɑːl] N → Transvaal m

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The only way he knew to make money was on the Stock Exchange, and he was very anxious to repeat the lucky experiment of the summer; but war had broken out with the Transvaal and nothing was doing in South Africans.

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Quatermain," said Sir Henry Curtis, when the man had brought the whisky and lit the lamp, "the year before last about this time, you were, I believe, at a place called Bamangwato, to the north of the Transvaal."

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His best figures of three for 66 came for Eastern Province against Transvaal at Port Elizabeth in 1988-89.

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Goud bring verandering: "In Johannesburg werd in razende vaart een nieuw Transvaal uit de grond gestampt." (78)

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Only a small contingent of Transvaal Boers took part in the expedition.

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He also traveled to Mozambique and even the British Transvaal to examine the working conditions of Africans laboring in mines.

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In the Transvaal, vivax and falciparum malaria were equally prevalent in the period under review, with P.

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Hailing from a cricketing family in South Africa, his father John played for Transvaal and was a wicketkeeper like David.

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Strauss may have been born in Transvaal but he remains as quintessentially English as a lightly-buttered crumpet, while Johannesburg-native Prior moved aged 11 and learned all his cricket in England.

. ENGLAND have long had [...]; ASHES DIARY

Uniting the former colonies of the Cape, the Orange River, the Transvaal and Natal, the Union had a population of almost six million.

A South African election: September 15th, 1910