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Transvaal
     
Transvaal

the Transvaal

an area in the northeast of South Africa. Boer farmers first went to live there in the 1830s, and it became a centre of the Afrikaner people and their culture, and of the opposition to British rule in South Africa, which led to the Boer War.
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