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Siege of Lydenburg

The Siege of Lydenburg was a siege carried out by the Boer Republic of Transvaal on Lydenburg, modern day South Africa, between January and March 1881 during the First Boer War.

Stellaland

Stellaland, officially known as the Republic of Stellaland (Dutch: Republiek Stellaland) from 1882–1883 and, after unification with the neighbouring State of Goshen, as the United States of Stellaland (Dutch: Verenigde Staten van Stellaland) from 1883–1885, was a Boer republic located in an area of Bechuanaland, west of the Transvaal.


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Revenue stamps of Transvaal

New Republic was a short lived Boer republic which existed from 1884 to 1888, when it was absorbed into the ZAR.

Thomas Upington

The town of Upington in the Northern Cape is named after him, as was the short-lived Boer republic of Upingtonia.