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Aliwal North

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Aliwal North is a town in central South Africa on the Orange River, Eastern Cape Province. [1]

30 relations: Afrikaans, Barkly East, Battle of Aliwal, Bethulie, Bloemfontein, Burgersdorp, Dordrecht, Eastern Cape, Drakensberg, Free State (province), Gariep Dam, Jamestown, Eastern Cape, Joe Gqabi District Municipality, Kraai River, Lady Grey, Eastern Cape, Molteno, Eastern Cape, Mossel Bay, Municipal council, Orange River, Queenstown, Eastern Cape, Rouxville, Sikh, Sikh War, Sir Harry Smith, 1st Baronet, Smithfield, Free State, Sotho language, The New York Times, Venterstad, Walter Sisulu Local Municipality, Xhosa language, Zastron.

Afrikaans

Afrikaans is a West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia and, to a lesser extent, Botswana and Zimbabwe.

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Barkly East

Barkly East is a town in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, seat of the Joe Gqabi District Municipality, and 117 km by road E.S.E. of Aliwal North, lying in the mountainous area just south of Lesotho.

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Battle of Aliwal

The Battle of Aliwal was fought on 28 January 1846 between the British and the Sikhs.

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Bethulie

Bethulie is a small sheep and cattle farming town in the Free State province of South Africa.

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Bloemfontein

Bloemfontein (Afrikaans and Dutch "fountain of flowers" or "blooming fountain"; also known as Bloem) is the capital city of the province of Free State of South Africa; and, as the judicial capital of the nation, one of South Africa's three national capitals (the other two being Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Pretoria, the administrative capital) and is the seventh largest city in South Africa.

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Burgersdorp

Burgersdorp is a medium-sized town in Gariep in the Joe Gqabi District Municipality of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

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Dordrecht, Eastern Cape

Dordrecht is a town situated in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa.

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Drakensberg

The Drakensberg (Afrikaans: Drakensberge, Zulu: uKhahlamba, Sotho: Maluti) is the name given to the eastern portion of the Great Escarpment, which encloses the central Southern African plateau.

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Free State (province)

The Free State (Vrystaat, Foreistata; before 1995, the Orange Free State) is a province of South Africa.

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Gariep Dam

Gariep Dam is in South Africa, near the town of Norvalspont, bordering the Free State and Eastern Cape provinces.

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Jamestown, Eastern Cape

Jamestown is a town on the N6 national road 58 km south of Aliwal North and 105 km north of Queenstown in the Joe Gqabi District Municipality of the Eastern Cape, South Africa.

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Joe Gqabi District Municipality

Joe Gqabi District Municipality is one of the seven districts of Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

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Kraai River

The Kraai River ("Crow River") is a tributary of the Orange or Gariep River that flows near Barkly East in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.

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Lady Grey, Eastern Cape

Lady Grey is a rural village in the North-Eastern Cape in South Africa near the border with Lesotho.

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Molteno, Eastern Cape

Molteno (eMolteno) is a town in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

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Mossel Bay

Mossel Bay is a harbour town of about 130,000 people on the Southern Cape (or Garden Route) of South Africa.

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Municipal council

A municipal council is the local government of a municipality such as city councils and town councils.

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Orange River

The Orange River (from Afrikaans/Dutch: Oranjerivier) is the longest river in South Africa and the Orange River Basin extends extensively into Namibia and Botswana to the north.

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Queenstown, Eastern Cape

Queenstown, now called Komani is a town in the middle of the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, roughly halfway between the smaller towns of Cathcart and Sterkstroom.

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Rouxville

Rouxville is a small wool and cattle farming town in the Free State province of South Africa and is situated on the N6 national route.

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Sikh

A Sikh (ਸਿੱਖ) is a person associated with Sikhism, a monotheistic religion that originated in the 15th century based on the revelation of Guru Nanak.

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Sikh War

A Sikh War may mean.

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Sir Harry Smith, 1st Baronet

Lieutenant General Sir Henry George Wakelyn Smith, 1st Baronet GCB (28 June 1787 – 12 October 1860), known as Sir Harry Smith, was a notable English soldier and military commander in the British Army of the early 19th century.

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Smithfield, Free State

Smithfield is a small town founded in 1848 in the Orange River Sovereignty (as the region was then named).

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Sotho language

Sotho (Sesotho; also known as Southern Sotho, or Southern Sesotho, Historically also Suto, or Suthu, Souto, Sisutho, Sutu, or Sesutu, according to the pronunciation of the name.) is a Southern Bantu language of the Sotho-Tswana (S.30) group, spoken primarily in South Africa, where it is one of the 11 official languages, and in Lesotho, where it is the national language.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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Venterstad

Venterstad is a settlement in Gariep in Joe Gqabi District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

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Walter Sisulu Local Municipality

Walter Sisulu Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Joe Gqabi District of the Eastern Cape in South Africa.

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Xhosa language

Xhosa (Xhosa: isiXhosa) is a Nguni Bantu language with click consonants ("Xhosa" begins with a click) and one of the official languages of South Africa.

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Zastron

Zastron is a small agricultural town in the Free State province of South Africa, some 30 km from the border of Lesotho.

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Aliwal North, Eastern Cape, Aliwal North, South Africa, Aliwal-Noord, Dukathole, Dukatole.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliwal_North

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