protectorate · Central and Southern Africa

North-Eastern Rhodesia

1900 CE – 1911 CE · capital Fort Jameson

The British South Africa Company's territory between the Luangwa valley and Lakes Tanganyika and Mweru, centred on Fort Jameson.

Origins

Company agents and British officials extended control over the lands east of the Kafue in the 1890s, defeating Mpezeni's Ngoni Kingdom in 1898 and bringing the Bemba Kingdom under control in 1898-1899. An Order in Council of 1900 established North-Eastern Rhodesia under company administration.

Rule and society

The administrator Robert Codrington governed from Fort Jameson, now Chipata, with a small staff of officials. Hut tax pushed men to work in the mines of Southern Rhodesia and Katanga and on farms. Missionaries, especially the White Fathers among the Bemba, spread schooling, and the end of slave raiding changed local politics.

Decline and legacy

In 1911 North-Eastern Rhodesia was merged with North-Western Rhodesia to form Northern Rhodesia, with its capital at Livingstone, and its territory later became the eastern and northern provinces of Zambia.

Lineage

North-Eastern RhodesiaNorthern Rhodesia 1911 CE – 1964 CE

Connections (4)

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APA
The Epoch Institute. (2026). North-Eastern Rhodesia. In The Epoch Institute States Register. https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/north-eastern-rhodesia
MLA
“North-Eastern Rhodesia.” The Epoch Institute States Register, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/north-eastern-rhodesia. Accessed .
Chicago
The Epoch Institute. “North-Eastern Rhodesia.” The Epoch Institute States Register. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/north-eastern-rhodesia.
Harvard
The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘North-Eastern Rhodesia’, The Epoch Institute States Register. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/north-eastern-rhodesia (Accessed: ).

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