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  • 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

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Examples

  • But this racial change was by no means all that separated the European population in the Cape Colony from the Dutch of Holland.

    Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 1898

  • In 1865 this province was formally annexed to and incorporated in the English state, called Cape Colony, which had been set up on the Cape.

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 Various

  • It comprises (1) that whole southern portion of the continent known as Cape Colony, and (2) that portion of the great central plateau of the continent which extends from Cape Colony northward to Lakes Nyassa and Tanganyika -- all except the two Boer republics, the Orange Free State and the South African Republic.

    Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) Various

  • The Cape Colony is the only one that permits the black man to go to school or become a skilled artisan.

    An African Adventure Isaac Frederick Marcosson 1918

  • Port Elizabeth in the Cape Colony is the center of the ostrich feather trade.

    An African Adventure Isaac Frederick Marcosson 1918

  • You get a familiar feel of America in this South African country and especially in the Cape Colony, which is a place of fruits, flowers and sunshine resembling California.

    An African Adventure Isaac Frederick Marcosson 1918

  • Accordingly, the Portuguese, who might have possessed themselves of the temperate and healthy regions which we now call Cape Colony and Natal, confined their settlements to the malarious country north of the tropic of Capricorn.

    Impressions of South Africa James Bryce Bryce 1880

  • As the Natal line of railway is a competitor for this trade with the Cape lines, as well as with the line from Delagoa Bay, there is a keen feeling of rivalry toward Cape Colony, which is thought to have been unfriendly in annexing the native territories of Griqualand

    Impressions of South Africa James Bryce Bryce 1880

  • Those games in 1862, which took place in what was then known as the Cape Colony, involved military men and other white civil servants for the British colonial government.

    NYT > Home Page 2010

  • (then Bishop) Moran, of Grahamstown, decided our fate: the Cape Colony was to be our destination.

    Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer 1899

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