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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A former kingdom of central Africa, now the western part of Zambia.

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  • Anglo-Portuguese Barotse Boundary dispute (see below), the term Barotseland may be said to have acquired a second meaning.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various

  • The Lozi, whose kingdom was called Barotseland, is the ethnic group to which both communities belong.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • That agreement brought Northern Rhodesia and Barotseland together as one country at independence.

    Western Zambian Province Said Calm after Secessionist Clashes 2011

  • This ecoregion falls within the traditional kingdom of Barotseland.

    Western Zambezian grasslands 2008

  • The main economic activity in the region is agriculture, and the grasslands in Barotseland are part of a transhumant farming system where people and their livestock move between the floodplain in the dry season and the more wooded uplands in the rainy season.

    Western Zambezian grasslands 2008

  • Wildlife in the Liuwa Plain has been protected as far back as the second half of the nineteenth century, when it was declared a game reserve by King Lewanika of Barotseland.

    Western Zambezian grasslands 2008

  • The merera toad (Bufo reesi) is known only from the Kihanzi-Kilombero floodplain of the Mahenge District of southern Tanzania, while the Barotse water snake (Crotaphpeltis barotseensis) only occurs on the Kalabo Floodplain of Barotseland.

    Zambezian flooded grasslands 2008

  • The ecoregion is found at 1,100 to 1,200 meters (m) elevation in the higher rainfall areas of the Kalahari sands of northern Barotseland in western Zambia, and marginally extends into Angola.

    Zambezian Cryptosepalum dry forests 2007

  • Towards central Barotseland, Brachystegia spiciformis, B. longifolia and Colophospermum mopane become more frequent.

    Zambezian Cryptosepalum dry forests 2007

  • Barotseland you would of course like to get one who knew the country and the people and the language.

    Greenmantle 2005

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