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The Griqua (; Afrikaans ''Griekwa'', sometimes incorrectly called Korana) are a subgroup of South Africa's heterogeneous and multiracial Coloured people, who have a unique origin in the early history of the Cape Colony. Similar to another Afrikaans-speaking group at the time, the Trekboers, they originally populated the frontiers of the infant Cape Colony.Their semi-nomadic society mobilised into commandos of mounted gunmen. Also like the Boers, they migrated inland from Cape Town, and established several states in what is now modern South Africa and Namibia. Under apartheid they were classified as "Coloured" and have since mostly integrated with other mixed-race populations in South Africa. ==Name== The Griqua are a racially and culturally mixed people who originated in the intermarriages and sexual relations between European colonists in the Cape and the Khoikhoi living there in the 17th and 18th centuries. The mixed-race groups that developed in the early Cape Colony had different names for themselves. ''"Bastaards"'', ''"Basters"'', ''"Korana"'', ''"Oorlam"'' and ''"Griqua"'' were a few of them, with each group often having a preference. Like the Afrikaners, these groups frequently migrated inland to escape colonial rule. According to Isaac Tirion, the Khoi name ''"Griqua"'' (or ''"Grigriqua"'') is first recorded in 1730 as referring to a people living in the northeastern section of the Cape Colony.〔(Landkaart Kaap de Goede Hoop )〕 In 1813 Rev. John Campbell of the London Missionary Society (LMS) used the term for a mixed group of ''Chariguriqua'' (a Cape Khoikhoi group), 'bastaards', ''Koranna'', and ''Tswana'' living at the site of present-day Griekwastad (formerly "Klaarwater").〔(Griekwastad )〕 The British found their "proud name", ''Bastaards'', offensive, so the LMS called them Griqua. Because of a common ancestor named Griqua and shared links to the Chariguriqua (Grigriqua), the people officially changed their name to the Griqua.〔Monica Wilson and Leonard Thompson, ''The Oxford History of South Africa: Volume I'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969); 70.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Griqua people」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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