Rhodesia (region)

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Rhodesia, known initially as Zambesia, is a historical region in southern Africa whose formal boundaries evolved between the 1890s and 1980. The term "Rhodesia" was first used to refer to the region by European settlers (and newspapers) in the 1890s who informally named their new home after Cecil Rhodes, the founder and managing director of the British South Africa Company (BSAC). The company initiated colonisation of the region and governed it under British charter from 1889 until the 1920s. The region was bisected by a natural border, the Zambezi. BSAC designated the territory to the north of the Zambezi as North-Eastern Rhodesia and Barotziland–North-Western Rhodesia (or just North-Western Rhodesia informally). In 1911, BSAC combined the two as Northern Rhodesia, and this territory became a British Protectorate in the 1920s and then Zambia on independence in 1964. The territory to the south of the Zambezi was designated Southern Rhodesia by the company, and it became Zimbabwe in 1980...

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