NOUN
- a landlocked constitutional monarchy in southern Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1966
How To Use Basutoland In A Sentence
- British Kaffraria, Griqualand East and Griqualand West were examples of this policy, which is still represented, not unsuccessfully, by the great protected area of Basutoland. The Expansion of Europe
- Basutoland, which is situated just behind the frowning wall of the Kafir Stories Seven Short Stories
- Basutoland was renamed the Kingdom of Lesotho upon independence from the UK in 1966. Lesotho
- Lepotane, son of the chief of a remote village in Basutoland, becomes innocently involved in a ritual murder which goes awry. A. A. Murray
- Kafir tribes from the north-east were chased southward into the mountain country now called Basutoland, most of which had been previously inhabited only by Bushmen, and here the Basuto kingdom was built up out of fugitive clans, by the famous chief Moshesh, between 1820 and 1840. Impressions of South Africa
- Lesothoconventional long form: Kingdom of Lesotho conventional short form: Lesotho local long form: Kingdom of Lesotho local short form: Lesotho former: Basutoland Country name
- In 1937 Lord Wemyss was appointed Assistant District Commissioner in Basutoland. The Scottish Scene
- He examined Red Triangle work among the indigenous peoples in Basutoland and among the Bantus. Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I
- East, but that he had for some time past been living in Basutoland, which is situated just behind the frowning wall of the Drakensberg, to the southwest of where they were speaking, and not twenty miles distant. Stories by English Authors: Africa (Selected by Scribners)
- Background: Basutoland was renamed the Kingdom of Lesotho upon independence from the UK in 1966. Lesotho
