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Which territory did the Sotho lose to the Boers west of the Caledon River?
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Following decades of conflict and warfare with Boer trekkers who began settling on the western margins of their kingdom in 1834, the Sotho lost most of their territory west of the Caledon River. The Boers subsequently used this land to form the Orange Free State.12