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Southern
Rhodesia was the name of the African country of Zimbabwe
when still a colony of the United Kingdom.
It was also known as Rhodesia
for a time. Named after Cecil Rhodes, the British empire-builder who was the
most important figure in European expansion into southern Africa, the original
Rhodesia was created in 1888 after Rhodes obtained mineral rights from local
chiefs under questionable circumstances. Northern Rhodesia
(now Zambia)
separated from Southern Rhodesia in 1910.
Southern
Rhodesia remained a British colony and came to be known simply as Rhodesia. In
1965 it unilaterally declared itself independent under a white-dominated
government. After a long, three-way civil war between the white government and
two socialistic black African movements, ZAPU and ZANU, Britain resumed control
for a brief time and then granted independence to Rhodesia in 1980, whereupon
it became Zimbabwe.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Rhodesia)
See: Zimbabwe
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