Rhodesia
[ roh-dee-zhuh ]
/ roʊˈdi ʒə /
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noun
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Rhodesia was named for Cecil Rhodes, the English industrialist whose British South Africa Company colonized the region at the end of the nineteenth century. He also founded the Rhodes Scholarships for study at Oxford University.
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