Trans‧vaal, the /ˈtrænzvɑːl $ ˌtrænsˈvɑːl/
an area in the northeast of South Africa. Boer farmers first went to live there in the 1830s, and it became a centre of the Afrikaner people and their culture, and of the opposition to British rule in South Africa, which led to the Boer War.

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