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Afrikaners
Dutch Cape Colony
Dutch colony in Southern Africa, 1652–1795 and 1802–1806

Duit
200px|thumb|right|Copper duit coin from 1735, with the Dutch East India Company|VOC [[monogram on the obverse and the crowned coat of arms of the Province of Holland on the reverse.]]
Cape Dutch architecture
architectural style in South Africa
Q219101
Landdrost () was the title of various officials with local jurisdiction in the Netherlands and a number of former territories in the Dutch Empire. The term is a Dutch compound, with land meaning "region" and drost, from Middle Dutch drossāte (droes-state, bloke-castle, state-holder) which originally referred to a lord’s chief retainer (who later became the medieval seneschal or steward), equivalent to:
an English reeve or steward;
a Low German Drost(e) of Northern Germany (cognate with German Truchsess); or
German Meier (from Latin majordomus).
Slavery in South Africa
Slavery in the Cape Colony
Cape Dutch
historical socioeconomic group of Afrikaners in the Western Cape
history of Cape Colony before 1806
aspect of history