"The Orange Free State (Dutch: Oranje Vrijstaat,[a] Afrikaans: Oranje-Vrystaat,[b] abbreviated as OVS) was an independent Boer sovereign republic in Southern Africa during the second half of ...
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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. It is the historical precursor to the present-day Free State province. Extending between the Orange and Vaal rivers, its borders were determined by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1848 when the region was proclaimed as the Orange River Sovereignty, with a British Resident based in Bloemfontein. Bloemfontein and the southern parts of the Sovereignty had previously been settled by Griqua and by Trekboere from the Cape Colony." - (en.wikipedia.org 16.10.2019)
