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339 matches to South West Africa
Concentration Camps. 1862-65 USA. 1899-1902. British internment of Boers in South Africa. 1922-91. USSR. 1933-45 Nazi prisons for extermination and slave labour. Buchenwald. Auschwitz. Dachau. 1942-6 US Relocation Centers. 1942-46 Canada. 1950’s Kenya. 1973 Chile.
Devil’s Island. French Guiana. South American penal colony 1854-1946.
Dixie. US states south of Mason-Dixon line.
Dutch West India Company. 1621-1794. Commercial and colonial interests in Africa, South America. Driven from Brazil, 1654, New York, 1667.
Faulkner, William. 1897-1962. American novelist of US south. The Sound and the Fury 1929.
Freedmen. Released slaves in Rome, Athens, US South.
Gaucho. 18-19C Nomadic South American cowboy.
George I. 1660-1727. King of Great Britain and Ireland 1714-. First Hanover. Utrecht Peace. South Sea Bubble.
German South-West Africa. 1884 Protectorate. 1892-1919 Colony. Namibia.
Ghana, Ancient. Trading empire c300-1200. ≈southeast Mauritania + west Mali.
Gold Rush. 1550 Bohemia. 1849 California. 1851 Australia. 1880s Rhodesia. 1886 South Africa. 1897 Klondike.
Hottentots. South African native tribe.
Iberia. c6C-65BC. Kingdom in southwest Russia.
India. North: c2500BC Indus valley civilization. c2000BC Aryans invade. 6C Achaemenid. 5C Persia. 326 Alexander(NW). c300 Maurya Empire. 2C BC Greek, Parthian, Kushan invade. 1C AD Kushan. c320 Gupta Empire. 6C Divided. 5-15C Huns, Arabs, Persians invade 12C Moslem. 1526 Mogul. South: 3000BC Dravidian civilization. 12-13C Rashtrakutas, Cholas. 14C Moslem inv. 15C Vijayanagar Empire. 1498 daGama discovers sea route. 18C British East India Co. 1858 British Empire. 1947 Independent. 1950 Republic.
Ireland Act. 1920. Separate government for north and south. Union Act.
Judah. Judaea. Southern part of Kingdom of Israel.
Kaffir Wars. 1779-1879. Bantu vs British in South Africa. Cape Frontier Wars.
King Cotton. 1850s belief in southern US that cotton would guarantee success of independent Confederacy.
Knights of the Golden Circle. 1859-66. Secret US organization of South supporters during Civil War.
Korean War. 1950-3. China supports Communist invasion of South Korea. Repelled with UN aid-mainly US troops. MacArthur. 38th parallel border reestablished. 5M dead.
Kosovo. Predominantly Albanian province of southwest Serbia, Yugoslavia. 1996-99 KLA rebels seek autonomy. Serbian ethnic cleansing.
Lake Poets. 19C. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey of English Lake District.
Las Casas, Bartolomé de. 1474-1566. Spanish missionary to South America. New Laws 1542. Historia de las Indias.
Macquarie, Lachlan. 1761-1824. Scottish governor of New South Wales 1809-21. Public works; currency 1813; bank 1817.
Malan, Daniel. 1874-1959. South African Prime Minister 1948-54. Established Apartheid.