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Southern Rhodesia

British  

noun

  1. the former name (until 1964) of Zimbabwe

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Furmanovsky grew up in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, before moving to London at the age of 11, which she called a "traumatic change".

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2024

At the time of Elizabeth's first visit to Zimbabwe, the country was a British-ruled colony with some autonomy, known as Southern Rhodesia and with a white minority government.

From Reuters • Sep. 15, 2022

I was living in a far corner of the British Empire, in Southern Rhodesia.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 9, 2022

There are echoes of Southern Rhodesia, where white settlers had seeded themselves at the end of the nineteenth century: Lessing described it as “a very nasty little police state”.

From Nature • Oct. 7, 2019

The son of a Seventh-Day Adventist missionary, Luthuli was born in what was then Southern Rhodesia and educated in Natal.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela