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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.
16 mar 2011 · In March 1895 the separation between the two Bechuanalands was completed and British Bechuanaland was annexed by the Cape Colony. Census figures indicate that in 1904 the territory had a total of 84,472 residents, of whom 11,683 were literate. These were broken down as follows: Residents. Literate.
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]
Bechuanaland : further correspondence respecting the affairs of Bechuanaland and adjacent territories
In 1885 Britain occupied southern Botswana, beginning a period of colonial rule that was extended to the northern part of the country in 1890. Thereafter, until the 1966 restoration of independence, the territory was known as the Bechuanaland.
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.
This article argues that the Kalahari desert region of the Kwena tribal reserve out of the imperial command from 1930-1950, at a time when British colonial achieved territorial control of the tribal areas of Bechuanaland Protectorate (now through the chiefs.
