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Cape Colony Transvaal
First posted July 1st 2005, last revised on January 29th 2009







For the history since 1910, see South Africa

Orange River Colony 1902-1910
Orange Free State
Great Trek

For the history of the Boer population prior to 1835, see under Cape Colony

Students' Papers : Kim, Hong, The Boer War as Portrayed in Punch 1898-1900 (2008)








WEB-BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . EXTERNAL FILES
Country Profiles Articles : Orange Free State, Orange River Colony from Wikipedia
Artricles : Oranje Vrystaat, Oranjerivierkolonie, from Wikipedia Afrikaans edition
Links, General Category : Free State (South African Province), from Wikipedia
Kategorie : Vrystaat, from Wikipedia Afrikaans edition
Historical Maps
Timelines
Accounts of History Articles : Orange Free State, Orange River Colony from Wikipedia
Artricles : Oranje Vrystaat, Oranjerivierkolonie, from Wikipedia Afrikaans edition
Encyclopedia Entries Articles Kimberley in Orange, from Catholic Encyclopedia, 1907 edition
Articles Orange Free State, Bloemfontein, from EB 1911
Articles Oranjefluss-Republik, Bloemfontein, from Meyers Konversationslexikon 1885-1892, in German
Entry Graaf-Reinet, from Footnotes to History, by James L. Erwin
Cape Colony, from New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge
Politics
Military Wars of the Boers 1800-1999, Anglo-Boer War 1848, Boer-Basuto War 1858, Basuto-Boer War 1865-1868, Boer War 1899-1902, from ACED
Neville Gomm, The Commando Act of the Orange Free State Republic, from South African Military History Society
Anglo-Boer War Philatelic Society
Economy & Finances Entry South Africa, from Global History of Currencies, by Bryan Taylor
Ethnography
Religion Article Afrikaner Calvinism, from Wikipedia
History of Regions
History of Cities Bloemfontein : History from Wikipedia
Institutions History, from University of the Free State (of 1904)
Biographies
Bibliography RHS Bibliography, search for Orange Free State, Orange River Colony
Others Afrotropic Ecoregion, from WWF

WEB-BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . EXTERNALLY POSTED DOCUMENTS
Lists of Statesmen from Orange Free State by Ben Cahoon
Regnal Chronologies : Southern Africa, scroll down for Minor Boer States (the chieftaincies listed there, in fact, were no Boer states, but Griqua etc. polities); scroll sown for Xhosa, kwaZulu
Population Figures
Document Collections Search Hansard for Orange Free State, Orange River Colony
Orange Free State, pp.610-618 in vol.10 of Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States of America 1776-1949, 1972, GB
Archives, Musea, Libraries War Museum of the Boer Republics, Bloemfontein
National Symbols Flag, from FOTW; Coat of Arms, from International Civic Arms; from Armoria Patriae
Coins, Banknotes Search Coin Archives for Orange Free State
Stamps Orange Free State Study Circle
Others

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Online Libraries Internet Archive
On South Africa Robert Ross, A Concise History of South Africa, Cambridge Concise Histories, 1999, 219 pp.
Charles H. Feinstein, An Economic History of South Africa, Cambridge : UP 2005
Readers Digest Illustrated History of South Africa, Pleasantville NY : Readers Digest, 1988 [G]
Christopher Saunders and Iain R. Smith, Southern Africa 1795-1910, pp.597-623 in : Andrew Porter (ed.), The Oxford History of the British Empire, Vol.III : The Nineteenth Century, Oxford : UP 1999, KMLA Lib.Sign. 909.0971241 O98o v.3
D. Mills, The English in Africa (1900), posted on Internet Archive, chapter VII : The English and the Dutch in South Africa, pp.158-196
G. McCall Theal, History of South Africa: The Republics and Native Territories from 1854 to 1872 (1889), posted on Internet Archive
On the Orange Free State M.J. Boon, The history of the Orange Free State (1885), posted on Internet Archive
W.W. Collins, "Free statia", or, Reminiscences of a lifetime : in the orange free state, South Africa, from 1852 to end of 1875, 23 years (1907), posted on Internet Archive
H. Gunn, The language question in the Orange River Colony, 1902-1910. (Including certain papers and correspondence connected therewith) (1910), posted on Internet Archive
G.B. Beak, The aftermath of war; an account of the repatriation of Boers and natives in the Orange River colony, 1902-1904 (1906), posted on Internet Archive
Sources South African Treaties, Conventions, Agreements and State Papers (1898(, posted on Internet Archive
The Official correspondence between the governments of Great Britain, the South African Republic, and the Orange Free State which preceded the war in South Africa (1900), posted on Internet Archive
British rule in South Africa : a collection of official documents and other correspondence suggesting the adoption of a policy which shall ensure the peace and progress of the Orange Free State and Transvaal Republic (1868), posted on Internet Archive
Historical Dictionaries
Yearbook Entries