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  1. History of Botswana

    Aspect of history

    The history of Botswana encompasses the region's ancient and tribal history, its colonisation as the Bechuanaland Protectorate, and the present-day Republic of Botswana. The first modern humans to inhabit Botswana were the San people, and agriculture first developed approximately 2,300 years ago. The first Bantu peoples arrived c. 200 AD, and the first Tswana people arrived about 200 years later. The Tswana people split into various tribes over the following thousand years as migrations within the region continued, culminating in the Difaqane in the late 18th century. European contact first occurred in 1816, which led to the Christianization of the region. Facing threats from German South West Africa and the Afrikaners, the most influential Tswana chiefs negotiated the creation of a protectorate under the United Kingdom in 1885. Wikipedia

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  2. britannica.com

    6 days agohistory of Botswana, a survey of notable events and people in the history of Botswana to the present day. Botswana is a landlocked country in the centre of Southern Africa. The country is named after its dominant ethnic group, the Tswana ("Bechuana" in older variant orthography).
    Author:Neil Parsons
  3. britannica.com

    4 days agoBotswana - Precolonial, Colonial, Independence: The history of Botswana is in general the history of the Kalahari area, intermediate between the more populated savanna of the north and east and the less populated steppe of the south and west. Although reduced to a peripheral role in Southern Africa for most of the 20th century, at other times Botswana has been a central area of historical ...
    Author:Neil Parsons
  4. britannica.com

    4 days agoBotswana is bounded by Namibia to the west and north (the Caprivi Strip), Zambia and Zimbabwe to the northeast, and South Africa to the southeast and south. The Zambezi River border with Zambia is only several hundred yards long. The border along the main channel of the Chobe River up to the Zambezi was disputed with Namibia until a 1999 ruling by the International Court of Justice favored ...
    Author:Neil Parsons
  5. botswanaembassy.org

    Embassy of the Republic of Botswana in Washington, D.C.

    https://www.botswanaembassy.org › page › history-of-botswana

    Learn about the origins, migration, and colonial history of the Batswana people, who became the first inhabitants of Botswana. Find out how Botswana achieved independence in 1966 and maintained stability, democracy, and economic growth ever since.
  6. en.wikipedia.org

    c. 73000 BCE - Humans settle in present-day Botswana. [1]: xxiii c. 1000 - Ancestors of the Kalanga people and the Sotho-Tswana peoples migrate to present-day Botswana. [1]: xxiii c. 1400 - Ancestors of the Kgalagadi people and Yeyi people migrate to present-day Botswana. [1]: xxiii c. 1450 - The Kingdom of Butua is established by the Chibundule dynasty of the Kalanga people.
  7. historyworld.net

    The new republic takes the name Botswana, with Seretse Khama as its first president. During the 1970s Botswana allies itself with other independent nations of the region (first Zambia and Tanzania, and subsequently Mozambique and Angola) to put pressure on Rhodesia and South africa to introduce majority rule. With increasing unrest in the white ...
  8. en.wikipedia.org

    Botswana, [c] officially the Republic of Botswana, [d] is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory part of the Kalahari Desert.It is bordered by South Africa to the south and southeast, Namibia to the west and north, Zambia to the north and Zimbabwe to the northeast. With a population of slightly over 2.4 million ...
  9. historycentral.com

    History. The Batswana, a term inclusively used to denote all citizens of Botswana, also refers to the country's major ethnic group (the "Tswana" in South Africa), which came into the area from South Africa during the Zulu wars of the early 1880s. Prior to European contact, the Batswana lived as herders and farmers under tribal rule. ...

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