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Barotseland

American  
[buh-rot-suh-land] / bəˈrɒt səˌlænd /

noun

  1. a region in W Zambia. 44,920 sq. mi. (116,343 sq. km).


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To the support of these missions in Madagascar, Basutoland, Barotseland, the Cameroons and Gabon, and certain Pacific islands, have come the U. S. members of the International Missionary Council.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among the first: Paramount Chief Mwanawina II of Barotseland, representing all tribal chiefs of Northern Rhodesia.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the Abbey they will see Paramount Chief Yeta III of Barotseland with his white chin whiskers and horsehair flyswatter.

From Time Magazine Archive

He took parties to the Pungwe flats, and Barotseland, and up to Tanganyika.

From Greenmantle by Buchan, John

The great river has also served to prevent the spread from South Africa into Barotseland of such disastrous cattle diseases as tick fever and lung sickness.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various

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