Kaffraria

American  

[kuh-frair-ee-uh] / kəˈfrɛər i ə /

noun

1. a region in the S Republic of South Africa: inhabited mostly by the Xhosa.

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Kaffraria British  

/ kæˈfrɛərɪə /

noun

1. a former region of S central South Africa: inhabited chiefly by people then known as the Kaffirs; British Kaffraria was a crown colony established in 1853 in the southwest of the region and annexed to Cape Colony in 1865

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Other Word Forms

• Kaffrarian
  adjective

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Example Sentences

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Kaffraria

Cape Colony agreed to receive the Germans as military settlers; they would be planted, a row of defence, along the borders of Kaffraria.

From The Romance of a Pro-Consul Being The Personal Life And Memoirs Of The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, K.C.B. by James Milne

Goodrick learned some months afterwards from a friend, that these men had marched straight for the boundary of the Colony, crossed the Kei, and rejoined their own tribe, the Gaikas, in Kaffraria.

From From Veldt Camp Fires by H.A. Bryden

Subsequently another bishopric, St John’s, Kaffraria, was created and the Cape Town diocesan raised to the rank of archbishop.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various

One excursion after another was now made in various directions, until Kaffraria was entered.

From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century by Léon Benett

There was none of the majesty of outline which reaches from Table Bay to Durban, none of the blue mountains of the Colony, nor the deeply wooded table-lands and great inlets of Kaffraria.

From The Congo and Coasts of Africa by Richard Harding Davis

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