Orange River Sovereignty

Orange River Sovereignty
1848–1854
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Location of the Orange River Sovereignty, early 1850s
Status	British colony
Capital	Bloemfontein
Common languages	Afrikaans English Sesotho Setswana
Religion	Dutch Reformed, African religions
Government	Constitutional monarchy
Queen
Resident
• 1848–1852	Henry Douglas Warden
• 1852–1854	Henry Green
Commissioners
• 1849–1853	C. U. Stuart
• 1853–1854	Sir George Russell Clerk
History
• British Colony founded	3 February 1848
• Dominion renounced	30 January 1854
• Bloemfontein Convention	23 February 1854
• British garrison departed	11 March 1854
Succeeded by Orange Free State

The Orange River Sovereignty (1848–1854; Afrikaans: Oranjerivier-soewereiniteit) was a short-lived political entity between the Orange and Vaal rivers in Southern Africa, a region known informally as Transorangia. In 1854, it became the Orange Free State, and is now the Free State province of South Africa.