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The Bechuanaland Protectorate (/ ˌ b ɛ tʃ u ˈ ɑː n ə l æ n d /) was a protectorate established on 31 March 1885 in Southern Africa by the United Kingdom. It became the Republic of Botswana on 30 September 1966.
Bo tswana. Botswana, [c] officially the Republic of Botswana, [d] formerly known as Bechuanaland, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 per cent of its territory part of the Kalahari Desert.
British Bechuanaland was a short-lived Crown colony of the United Kingdom that existed in southern Africa from its formation on 30 September 1885 until its annexation to the neighbouring Cape Colony on 16 November 1895. [1]
Betschuanaland war ein britisches Protektorat auf dem Gebiet des seit 30. September 1966 unabhängigen Staates Botswana. Betschuanaland hatte kurz vor der Unabhängigkeit eine ungefähre Größe von 712.000 km². Extraterritoriale Hauptstadt des Protektorats war Mafeking in Südafrika.
The name “Bechuanaland” means “the country of the Tswana.” For the purpose of administration, Bechuanaland was subdivided into two; the northern portion which was the Bechuanaland Protectorate and the southern portion which was the British Bechuanaland (Crown colony).
30 wrz 2018 · Around the late 1880’s and early 1890’s, the Bechuanaland Protectorate was in danger of being forced to join the British South Africa Company under the command of Cecil Rhodes.
22 sty 2009 · This article, based on private papers as well as missionary and government records, examines the development of missionary contact with the Tswana peoples from the first settlement at Dithakong in 1816 to the establishment of a formal British Protectorate.
