King Country

noun

the King Country
the King Country an area in the centre of North Island, New Zealand: home of the King Movement, a nineteenth-century Māori separatist movement

Some eighteen miles away one reached the border of the King Country, the large tract of land then in the hands of the Maoris.

Gorst, ordered to quit the King Country, refused to budge without instructions.

The portion specially alloted to them is called the King Country, and no European may enter this without permission.

The King Country, which long remained closed to the missionaries and to all Europeans, is now open in every part.

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