Boer
Sign in to saveBoers ( ; ; ) are the descendants of the proto Afrikaans-speaking Free Burghers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. From 1652 to 1795, the Dutch East India Company controlled the Dutch Cape Colony, which the United Kingdom incorporated into the British Empire in 1806. The name of the group is derived from Trekbœr then later "boer", which means "farmer" in Dutch and Afrikaans.
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Boers are descendants of Dutch-speaking settlers who lived on the frontier of the Cape Colony in Southern Africa from the 17th through 19th centuries, with the name deriving from the Dutch and Afrikaans word for "farmer." They matter historically because they represent an important population group whose settlement patterns and experiences shaped the colonial and political development of Southern Africa during a formative period under Dutch and later British rule.
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- Protestant Christianity
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31 sectionsContents
- Origin
- European colonists
- Free Burghers
- Dutch free immigrants
- French Huguenots
- Trekboers
- Invasion of the Cape Colony
- Dislike of British rule
- Slachter's Nek
- Cape Frontier Wars (1779–1879)
- Great Trek
- Boer states and republics
- Anglo-Boer wars
- Boer War diaspora
- 1914 Boer Revolt
- Characteristics
- Language
- Culture
- Beliefs
- Modern usage
- Politics
- Education
- Media
- Territories
- Discrimination
- In modern fiction
- See also
- Notes
- References
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Boers ( ; ; ) are the descendants of the proto Afrikaans-speaking Free Burghers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. From 1652 to 1795, the Dutch East India Company controlled the Dutch Cape Colony, which the United Kingdom incorporated into the British Empire in 1806. The name of the group is derived from Trekbœr then later "boer", which means "farmer" in Dutch and Afrikaans.
In addition, the term also applied to those who left the Cape Colony during the 19th century to colonise the Orange Free State, and the Transvaal (together known as the Boer Republics), and to a lesser extent Natal. They emigrated from the Cape to live beyond the reach of the British colonial administration, with their reasons for doing so primarily being the new Anglophone common law system being introduced into the Cape and the British abolition of slavery in 1833.