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Free State (province) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 29 00 00 S degrees minutes |
Lat: -29.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 026 00 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 26.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Populated by Bantu peoples before arrival of Europeans in the early 19th cen.; Boer immigration accelerated during the Great Trek of the 1830s; was administered by Great Britain from 1848 until the founding of the independent Orange Free State in 1854. |
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| Free State (preferred,C,V,display,O,English)
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| Orange Free State (C,V,English)
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............ | named in 1854 |
| Province of Orange Free State (C,V)
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| Orange Free State, Province of the (C,V)
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| Oranje-Vrystaat (C,V)
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| Oranje Vrystaat (C,V)
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| Province of the Orange Free State (C,U)
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| SF03 (C,U,FIPS)
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| Estado Livre (C,U,Portuguese)
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| Fristaten (C,U,Swedish)
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| OFS (C,U)
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| Vrystaat (C,U,Afrikaans)
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Place Types: |
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| province (preferred, C) |
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| first level subdivision (C) |
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| former territory/colony/dependent state (C) |
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