Forsyth County, Georgia (GA) County population in 2014: 204,302 (90% urban, 10% rural); it was 98,407 in 2000. County owner-occupied with a mortgage or a loan houses and condos in 2010: 43,225. County owner-occupied free and clear houses and condos in 2010: 7,651.
The conflict is commonly referred to as simply the Boer War, since the First Boer War (December 1880 to March 1881) is much less well known.  Boers  was the common term for Afrikaans-speaking settlers in southern Africa at the time.
The Partition of Africa. The Partition of Africa began in earnest with the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885, and was the cause of most of Africaâs borders today. This conference was called by German Chancellor Bismarck to settle how European countries would claim colonial land in Africa and to avoid a war among European nations over African territory.