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Definition of Cape Colony
1. Noun. A former province of southern South Africa that was settled by the Dutch in 1652 and ceded to Great Britain in 1814; in 1994 it was split into three new provinces of South Africa.
Generic synonyms: Province, State
Group relationships: Republic Of South Africa, South Africa
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cape Colony
Literary usage of Cape Colony
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain) (1905)
"Governor of the Transvaal), William Lefevre (Cape Colony), CA Lionel Legge (British
Guiana), Ernest A. Lloyd (East Africa), G. Ian MacAlister (Canada), ..."
2. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1906)
"NATURAL MOUNDS IN Cape Colony. ERNEST HL SCHWARZ, Professor of Geology, Rhodes
University College, Grahamstown. interesting discussion that has been going ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Cape Colony as such then ceased to exist. In the present article, however, the
word " colony " is retained. The " provinces " referred to are the colonial ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1877)
"The moment of the grant of a similar Constitution to tne Cape Colony was selected,
as if deliberately, for a pro- feeding which taught our Dutch ..."