who were its ancient inhabitants?
Sotho people
Orange Free State
The majority of the inhabitants appear to have been members of the Sotho people (colonial form Basuto)
where did the elves live in lord of the rings In wild natural places who does the term refers to? Elves are a fictional race inhabiting Middle-earth in the remote past. do they speak any particular language? "Elfin" or "Qenya" do they appear in any film or book? Yes, they appear in "The Hobbit" and in "The Lord of the Rings", is the latter one book or a movie? The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel who is its author? J. R. R. Tolkien where is he from? Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State where is this state situated? It was an independent Boer sovereign republic under British suzerainty in Southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century, which ceased to exist after it was defeated and surrendered to the British Empire at the end of the Second Boer War in 1902 was diamond found here? Yes, the Free State established a temporary government over the diamond fields
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Orange Free State [SEP] Ancient settlements
Europeans first visited the country north of the Orange River towards the close of the 18th century. One of the most notable visitors was the Dutch explorer Robert Jacob Gordon, who mapped the region and gave the Orange River its name. At that time, the population was sparse. The majority of the inhabitants appear to have been members of the Sotho people (colonial form Basuto), but in the valleys of the Orange and Vaal were Korana and other Khoikhoi, and in the Drakensberg and on the western border lived numbers of Bushmen. Early in the 19th century Griqua established themselves north of the Orange.