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- n. A river in South Africa named in honor of the House of Orange-Nassau.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a river in South Africa that flows generally westward to the Atlantic Ocean
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“Basutoland, and Orange River Colony from which it is separated by the”
“The Kimberley Vicariate, with its centre in the Diamond City, includes the Orange River Colony, Bechuanaland, and the greater part of Griqualand, an extent of about 200,000 square miles.”
“Not only, he said, were the Diamond Fields within the limits of his Republic; the agreement between Waterboer and the Secretary of State was itself a breach of the Orange River Convention, by which Great Britain undertook not to negotiate with any native chief north of the River Vaal.”
“Capricorn and the southernmost point of the Orange River Colony, and between 22 deg. and 30 deg.”
“In 1886 it became a separate vicariate comprising Basutoland, Griqualand-West, Bechuanaland, and the Orange River Colony (then Free State).”
“At the present day the vicariate includes the Orange River Colony, Griqualand-West, and”
“By the second article of the Orange River Convention, renewed and ratified at Aliwal after the Basuto war in 1869, Her Majesty's Government promised not to make any agreement with native chiefs north of the Vaal River.”
“In the scattered mission districts of the Orange River Vicariate there are very few Irish Catholics.”
“Catholics into the district, Kimberley was erected into a vicariate in 1886 and now includes the Orange River Colony.”
“He afterwards entered the postal service, and being inspired with a vivid interest in geology, spent all the leave he could obtain from his office on the Orange River in getting fossils from the Stormberg Rocks.”
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