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Map of the Route of the Dorslandtrekkers (solid line)
Dorsland Trek (Thirstland Trek) is the collective name of a series of explorations undertaken by Boer settlers from South Africa from 1874 to 1881, in search of political independence and better living conditions. The participants, Trekboers ("migrating farmers"; the singular is trekboer)[1] from the Orange Free State and Transvaal, are called Dorslandtrekkers.
DorslandTrek (Thirstland Trek) is the collective name of a series of explorations undertaken by Boer settlers from South Africa from 1874 to 1881, in...
The Dorsland tree, also known as the Dorsland Baobab and the Dorsland Grootboom (Afrikaans: Large Thirstland Tree), is a baobab tree in Namibia which...
heading north on the Great Trek. South Africa portal Wikimedia Commons has media related to Great Trek. Trekboers DorslandTrek History of South Africa Laband...
colony attracted German immigrants. Most Afrikaners settled during the DorslandTrek, as well as during the existence of apartheid. Most Angolan-born Portuguese...
significant number even penetrated as far north as Angola during the DorslandTrek. The South-West became a German colony during the late 19th century...
invade what is today the nation of Botswana in the 19th century. The DorslandTrek in the late 19th and early 20th centuries saw thousands of Boers invade...
gradual Boer expansion and then large-scale Boer migrations, such as the DorslandTrek, away from British rule in the Cape, Jonker Afrikaner brought his people...
Swellendam – died 29 March 1927 in Humpata) was the leader of the First DorslandTrek. He was a member of the Gereformeerde Kerk (or 'Dopper' church) and...
Afrikaans and means "six rawhide thongs", given by settlers on the DorslandTrek who had to join six such thongs in order for a bucket to reach the water...
embark on another trek, north-west across the Kalahari Desert towards Angola, rather than live under Burgers. This became the DorslandTrek of 1874. The emigrants...
against intruders into their area. In 1886, Boer settlers on their DorslandTrek were defeated after they—allegedly fraudulently—acquired land between...
Transvaal gold fields and attracts a rush of prospectors. Start of the DorslandTrek through the Kalahari Desert. KwaZulu-Natal National Botanical Garden...
Great Trek when the Voortrekkers left the eastern Cape en masse, and after the major republics were established during the Thirstland ('Dorsland') Trek. One...
in 2014. Humpata was the primary destination of the Trekboers on the DorslandTrek in the 1870s. These Afrikaners formed the majority population in the...
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raids. The Nama sold the land around Rehoboth to an agent for the DorslandTrekkers but, before the Boers could settle there, the German Empire claimed...
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August – In response to the DorslandTrek, Khama III requests British protection of the region.: xxvi 1877 – The DorslandTrek migrates through present-day...
his strongly anti-colonial stance having successfully attacked the DorslandTrek-Boers in 1886. Continuous attacks on the fort by 500 Ondonga warriors...
institution. Volume Two. London: Zed Books, 1984 De Klerk, F. W. The last Trek. A New Beginning. MacMillan, 1998. [ISBN missing] Dowling, Owen (12 February...
Barend Daniël Bouwer (Ben Bouwer, possibly born during the DorslandTrek, Damaraland, Southwest Africa, 31 January 1875 – Cape Town, 23 November 1938)...
departed the Kongwa refugee camp to infiltrate South West Africa. Group 1 trekked first into Angola, before crossing the border into the Caprivi Strip. Encouraged...
the north-west of South Africa settled at Grootfontein. Part of the Dorslandtrekkers, they were heading towards Angola. When that territory fell under...
and 1879, at the time of the DorslandTrek, Boers had crossed the area, heading for Angola. In 1885 some of these trekkers returned and settled at Grootfontein...
in his business dealings, and even initially refused water to the DorslandTrekkers on their way to Angola in 1875. He shot over 400 elephants, and the...
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encroaching wave of white settlers (probably early participants of the DorslandTrek), and to German colonial occupation. He also took pride in conserving...
where the DorslandTrekkers crossed the Kunene River in 1881 to move into Angola. In commemoration of this migratory movement, the DorslandTrekkers Monument...
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