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A Boer state covering all of the north and northeast of South Africa. Established after the Vortrekker migration in the first half of the 19th century, with its capital at Pretoria. The legal name of the state was the South-African Republic.
Ruler Name | Start Year | End Year | Notes | Dynasty | Kingdom |
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To Boers | c. 1825 | 1848 | Transvaal | ||
To Great Britain | 1848 | 1854 | Transvaal | ||
To South African Republic | 1854 | 1877 | Transvaal | ||
Marthinus Wessel Pretorius | 1857 | 1860 | Transvaal | ||
Johannes Hermanus Grobler | 1860 | 1860 | Transvaal | ||
Stephanus Schoeman | 1860 | 1862 | Transvaal | ||
Willem Cornelis Janse van Rensburg | 1862 | 1864 | Transvaal | ||
Marthinus Wessel Pretorius | r. 1864 | 1871 | Transvaal | ||
Daniel Jacobus Erasmus | 1871 | 1872 | Transvaal | ||
Thomas François Burgers | 1872 | 1877 | Transvaal | ||
To Great Britain | 1877 | 1881 | First Boer War. | Transvaal | |
Sir Theophilus Shepstone | 1877 | 1879 | Administrator. | Transvaal | |
Garnet, Viscount Wolseley | 1879 | 1880 | Governor | Transvaal | |
To South African Republic | 1881 | 1900 | Transvaal | ||
Paul Kruger | 1880 | 1902 | Triumvirate with Pretorius and Joubert from 1880-1883 | Transvaal | |
Marthinus Wessel Pretorius | rr. 1880 | 1902 | Triumvirate with Kruger and Joubert from 1880-1883 | Transvaal | |
Piet Joubert | 1880 | 1902 | Triumvirate with Kruger and Pretorius from 1880-1883 | Transvaal | |
Schalk Willem Burger | 1900 | 1902 | Acting for Kruger. | Transvaal | |
To Great Britain | 1902 | 1910 | Second Boer War. | Transvaal | |
Alfred, Viscount Milner | 1901 | 1905 | Served also as Orange River Colony Governor simultaneously. | Transvaal | |
William Palmer, Earl of Selborne | 1905 | 1910 | Transvaal | ||
To South Africa | 1910 | Present | Transvaal |
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