Orange River Colony

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Flag of the Orange River Colony
Location of the Orange River Colony

The Orange River Colony (English: Orange River Colony ) was a British colony , which at the end of the Second Boer War emerged after the Orange Free State in 1900 occupied and 1902 annexed was. The capital of the colony was Bloemfontein . In 1910 the colony was incorporated into the South African Union as the Province of Orange Free State .

With the Peace of Vereeniging the colony got its civil administration. Abraham Fischer served as Prime Minister until 1910 .

The governors of the Orange River Colony were:

literature

  • JH Meiring: The Orange River Colony. Its Resources and Development. Argus Company, Bloemfontain 1906
  • Leonard Monteath Thompson: The Unification of South Africa, 1902-1910. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1960
  • Paul Samassa: The New South Africa. CA Schwetschke, Berlin 1905