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Name: Boer Voortrekker Settlement of Potchefstroom

Type: Polity

Start: 1839 AD

End: 1844 AD

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Was a Boer Republic (independent republics formed by Durch-speaking inhabitants of the Cape Colony that wanted to be independent from the British Cape Colony). It was located in Transvaal.

Establishment

  • January 1839: Potchefstroom was founded in 1838 by Voortrekkers, Dutch-speaking settlers who migrated from the Cape Colony in South Africa. It is the second-oldest European settlement in the Transvaal region, now part of modern-day South Africa.

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    Disestablishment

  • January 1845: The towns of Potchefstroom and Winburg were established by Boer Voortrekkers in the 1830s. In 1844, they formed a republic together, known as the Republic of Winburg-Potchefstroom.

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