RHODESIA Definition & Meaning

Rhodesia

[ roh-dee-zhuh ]

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noun

(as Southern Rhodesia ) a former British colony in southern Africa: declared independence 1965; name changed to Zimbabwe 1979.
a historical region in southern Africa that comprised the British territories of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia ) and Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe ).

Rhodesia

/ rəʊˈdiːʃə; -zɪə /

noun

a former name (1964–79) for Zimbabwe

Rhodesia

Former name of Zimbabwe , a nation in southeastern Africa .

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Notes

Rhodesia was named for Cecil Rhodes, the English industrialist whose British South Africa Company colonized the region at the end of the nineteenth century. He also founded the Rhodes Scholarships for study at Oxford University .

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Other �y��vlog Forms

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Furmanovsky grew up in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, before moving to London at the age of 11, which she called a "traumatic change".

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The 75-year-old was born in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, and made Edinburgh his home after studying there.

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He put pressure on Rhodesia's white minority government to give up power, but was accused of ignoring the Argentine junta's "disappearances" of its critics.

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In the 1970s, Beijing built the Tazara Railway from landlocked Zambia to Tanzania’s Dar es Salaam port, allowing copper exports to circumvent white-minority-ruled Rhodesia and apartheid South Africa.

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In the 1970s, Beijing built the Tazara Railway from landlocked Zambia to Tanzania’s Dar es Salaam port, allowing copper exports to circumvent white-minority ruled Rhodesia and apartheid South Africa.

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