Orange River Colony
Orange River Colony Oranjerivierkolonie | |||||||||
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| Status | British colony | ||||||||
| Capital | Bloemfontein | ||||||||
| Common languages | English(official), Afrikaans, Dutch, Sesotho | ||||||||
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| Religion | |||||||||
| Government | Constitutional monarchy | ||||||||
| Monarch | |||||||||
• 1902–1910 | Edward VII | ||||||||
• 1910 | George V | ||||||||
| Governor | |||||||||
• 1902–1905 | Viscount Milner | ||||||||
• 1905–1907 | Earl of Selborne | ||||||||
• 1907–1910 | Sir Hamilton John Goold-Adams | ||||||||
| Prime Minister | |||||||||
• 1907–1910 | Abraham Fischer | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 31 May 1902 | ||||||||
• British occupation | 28 May 1900 | ||||||||
• British annexation | 6 October 1900 | ||||||||
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• Self-government | 27 November 1907 | ||||||||
• incorporation in the Union of South Africa | 31 May 1910 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 31 May 1910 | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1904 | 387,315 | ||||||||
| Currency | Pound sterling | ||||||||
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| Today part of | South Africa | ||||||||
The Orange River Colony was the British colony created after Britain first occupied (1900) and then annexed (1902) the independent Orange Free State in the Second Boer War. The colony ceased to exist in 1910, when it was absorbed into the Union of South Africa as the Orange Free State Province.