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This late-19th century British map shows Basutoland, as the present-day Kingdom of Lesotho then was known. A local chief, Moshoeshoe (circa 1786-1870), laid the basis for modern Lesotho in the 1820s a

Date
1870–1880
Mapmaker / publisher
Weller, Edward, died 1884
Place
Lesotho
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
1,333 × 1,024 pixels

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Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago, and a faithful scan of a flat work adds no new copyright.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-Art (PD-old-100); no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

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"This late-19th century British map shows Basutoland, as the present-day Kingdom of Lesotho then was known. A local chief, Moshoeshoe (circa 1786-1870), laid the basis for modern Lesotho in the 1820s a" (1870–1880). Weller, Edward, died 1884, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Basutoland_WDL657.png

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