Lesotho Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
sovereign state in southern Africa
About Lesotho
Before European settlement of the area, the Sotho-Tswana people lived in what is nowFree Statein neighbouringSouth Africa. They were a farming people, and when the Zulus started attacking villages and the DutchVoortrekkersstarted encroaching on their land, they fled up into the Lesotho mountains. Here, continuous attacks from the Zulus forced local tribes to join together for protection, and by 1824, King Moeshoeshoe had established himself as king andThaba Bosiuas his mountain fortress. Moeshoeshoe later allied himself with the British Cape Colony government in a bid to protect the Basotho from the Boers' rapidly increasing presence in the area. Much fighting followed, forcing Moeshoeshoe to go to the imperial government of the British, and in 1868, Basotholand (as it was then called, lat
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