Boer

Also known as Boers, Afrikaners, Dutch South African farmer

Boers ( ; ; ) are the descendants of the proto Afrikaans-speaking Free Burghers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. From 1652 to 1795, the Dutch East India Company controlled the Dutch Cape Colony, which the United Kingdom incorporated into the British Empire in 1806. The name of the group is derived from Trekbœr then later "boer", which means "farmer" in Dutch and Afrikaans.

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Boers are descendants of Dutch-speaking settlers who lived on the frontier of the Cape Colony in Southern Africa from the 17th through 19th centuries, with the name deriving from the Dutch and Afrikaans word for "farmer." They matter historically because they represent an important population group whose settlement patterns and experiences shaped the colonial and political development of Southern Africa during a formative period under Dutch and later British rule.

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Ethnic group.group: Boers
Ethnic group.image: Boerfamily1886.jpg
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Ethnic group.caption: Boer family in 1886
Ethnic group.languages: Afrikaans
Ethnic group.religions: Protestant Christianity

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Population: 1500000
Image: Boerfamily1886.jpg

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Commons category: Boers
native label: Boere

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Origin
European colonists
Free Burghers
Dutch free immigrants
French Huguenots
Trekboers
Invasion of the Cape Colony
Dislike of British rule
Slachter's Nek
Cape Frontier Wars (1779–1879)
Great Trek
Boer states and republics
Anglo-Boer wars
Boer War diaspora
1914 Boer Revolt
Characteristics
Language
Culture
Beliefs
Modern usage
Politics
Education
Media
Territories
Discrimination
In modern fiction
See also
Notes
References
Sources
External links

In addition, the term also applied to those who left the Cape Colony during the 19th century to colonise the Orange Free State, and the Transvaal (together known as the Boer Republics), and to a lesser extent Natal. They emigrated from the Cape to live beyond the reach of the British colonial administration, with their reasons for doing so primarily being the new Anglophone common law system being introduced into the Cape and the British abolition of slavery in 1833.