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Southern Rhodesia

British  

noun

  1. the former name (until 1964) of Zimbabwe

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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At the time of Elizabeth's first visit to Zimbabwe, the country was a British-ruled colony with some autonomy, known as Southern Rhodesia and with a white minority government.

From Reuters Sep. 15, 2022

I was living in a far corner of the British Empire, in Southern Rhodesia.

From Seattle Times Sep. 9, 2022

There are echoes of Southern Rhodesia, where white settlers had seeded themselves at the end of the nineteenth century: Lessing described it as “a very nasty little police state”.

From Nature Oct. 7, 2019

Robert Gabriel Mugabe was born Feb. 21, 1924, in a rural village in what was then Southern Rhodesia.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 6, 2019

Within a few minutes, we were all singing the song “Stimela,” a rousing anthem about a train making its way down from Southern Rhodesia.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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