Southern Rhodesia

English Etymology en British colonizer Cecil Rhodes = 1. Pronunciation en en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Knabrupt-Southern Rhodesia.wav General American Proper noun Southern Rhodesia en Q750583en historical en A <<former colony>> of the <<c/United Kingdom>>; a name used to refer to the area now called Zimbabwe, officially introduced in 1901. A self-governing colony of Britain from 1923, its government began to refer to itself simply as Rhodesia in 1964, when Northern Rhodesia became Zambia. The name Zimbabwe was adopted in 1980. Derived terms en North-Eastern Rhodesia Northern Rhodesia North-Western Rhodesia Rhodesia Translations Q750583 former name of what is now Zimbabwe Belarusian: be Паўднёвая Радэ́зія f Bulgarian: bg Ю́жна Роде́зия f Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 南羅得西亞 Nán Luódéxīyà Czech: cs Jižní Rhodesie f Danish: da Sydrhodesia Dutch: nl Zuid-Rhodesië n French: fr Rhodésie du Sud f German: de Südrhodesien n Japanese: ja 南ローデシア みなみローデシア, Minami Rōdeshia Korean: ko ^남로디지아 Marathi: mr दक्षिण रोडेशिया Polish: pl Rodezja Południowa f Portuguese: pt Rodésia do Sul f Russian: ru Ю́жная Роде́зия f Júžnaja Rodɛ́zija Slovak: sk Južná Rodézia f Spanish: es Rodesia del Sur f Ukrainian: uk Півде́нна Роде́зія f en Zimbabwe