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Parktown is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, the first suburb north of the inner city. [1]

43 relations: Afrikaans, Art Nouveau, Berea, Gauteng, Braamfontein, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, Edwardian era, English language, Forest Town, Gauteng, Frank Emley, Helpmekaar Kollege, Herbert Baker, Hillbrow, HMSAS Parktown (T39), Houghton Estate, James Cope Christie, Jameson Raid, Jan Smuts Avenue, Johannesburg, Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Johannesburg Youth Orchestra, Killarney, Gauteng, M1 (Johannesburg), Magaliesberg, Melville, Gauteng, Milpark, Milpark Hospital, Parkhurst, Gauteng, Parktown Boys' High School, Parktown Convent, Parktown mansions, Parktown North, Parktown prawn, Parkview, Gauteng, Parkwood, Johannesburg, Randlord, South Africa, South African Republic, Southern Ndebele language, Transnet Freight Rail, University of the Witwatersrand, Westcliff, Gauteng, Zulu language.

Afrikaans

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

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Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau is an international style of art, architecture and applied art, especially the decorative arts, that was most popular between 1890 and 1910.

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Berea, Gauteng

Berea is a suburb of Johannesburg, in the South African province of Gauteng.

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Braamfontein

Braamfontein (English: blackberry fountain) is a central suburb of Johannesburg, in South Africa, seat of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and some of South Africa's major corporations such as Liberty Holdings Limited, JD Group (part of Steinhoff Africa), Sappi, Bidvest (formerly Rennies) Bank and Hollard.

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Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital

The Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital (formerly Johannesburg General Hospital), nicknamed Joburg Gen is an accredited general hospital in Parktown, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.

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City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality

The City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality is a metropolitan municipality that manages the local governance of Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Edwardian era

The Edwardian era or Edwardian period of British history covers the brief reign of King Edward VII, 1901 to 1910, and is sometimes extended in both directions to capture long-term trends from the 1890s to the First World War.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Forest Town, Gauteng

Forest Town, as the name implies, is a leafy suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Frank Emley

Frank Emley (1861, Durham - 1938, Bedford) was an English architect, who played an important part in designing several buildings in early Johannesburg in the practices of Leck and Emley and Emley and Williamson.

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Helpmekaar Kollege

Helpmekaar Kollege is an Afrikaans private high school in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.

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Herbert Baker

Sir Herbert Baker (9 June 1862 – 4 February 1946) was an English architect remembered as the dominant force in South African architecture for two decades, and a major designer of some of New Delhi's most notable government structures.

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Hillbrow

Hillbrow is an inner city residential neighbourhood of Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, South Africa.

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HMSAS Parktown (T39)

HMSAS Parktown was a minesweeping whaler of the South African Naval Services that was sunk during the Second World War.

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Houghton Estate

Houghton Estate, often simply called Houghton is a wealthy suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, north-east of the city centre.

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James Cope Christie

James Alfred Cope-Christie was an architect in early Johannesburg and Rhodesia.

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Jameson Raid

The Jameson Raid (29 December 1895 – 2 January 1896) was a botched raid against the South African Republic (commonly known as the Transvaal) carried out by British colonial statesman Leander Starr Jameson and his Company troops ("police" in the employ of Beit and Rhodes' British South Africa Company) and Bechuanaland policemen over the New Year weekend of 1895–96.

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Jan Smuts Avenue

Jan Smuts Avenue is a major street in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Johannesburg

Johannesburg (also known as Jozi, Joburg and Egoli) is the largest city in South Africa and is one of the 50 largest urban areas in the world.

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Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra

The Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra (JPO) is Johannesburg's leading Philharmonic Orchestra.

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Johannesburg Youth Orchestra

The Johannesburg Youth Orchestra (JYO) is a youth symphony orchestra founded in 1976.

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Killarney, Gauteng

Killarney is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.

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M1 (Johannesburg)

The M1 De Villiers Graaff motorway is a major freeway in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Magaliesberg

Magaliesberg (historically also known as Macalisberg or as the Cashan Mountains) is a mountain range extending west and north from Pretoria to just south of Pilanesberg, (see also Pilanesberg National Park), and extending for some 50 km east of Pretoria where it peters out just south of Bronkhorstspruit.

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Melville, Gauteng

Melville is a bohemian suburb of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.

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Milpark

Milpark is an area in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Milpark Hospital

The Milpark Hospital is a private hospital in western Parktown, Johannesburg, in the area known as Milpark, and owned by Netcare Limited.

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Parkhurst, Gauteng

Parkhurst is a small, but dense northern Johannesburg suburb, Gauteng Province, South Africa of about 2000 households and 4000 residents.

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Parktown Boys' High School

Parktown Boys' High School is a public high school for boys in Parktown, a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Parktown Convent

Parktown Convent was built in 1905.

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Parktown mansions

Johannesburg Academic Hospital was built. The mansions of Parktown (a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa) are an important part of the history of the city of Johannesburg.

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Parktown North

Parktown North is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Parktown prawn

The Parktown prawn, African king cricket or tusked king cricket (Libanasidus vittatus) is a species of king cricket endemic to Southern Africa.

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Parkview, Gauteng

Parkview is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Parkwood, Johannesburg

Parkwood is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Randlord

Randlords were the entrepreneurs who controlled the diamond and gold mining industries in South Africa in its pioneer phase from the 1870s up to World War I. A small number of European adventurers and financiers, largely of the same generation, gained control of the diamond mining industry at Kimberley, Northern Cape.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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South African Republic

The South African Republic (Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, ZAR), often referred to as the Transvaal and sometimes as the Republic of Transvaal, was an independent and internationally recognised country in Southern Africa from 1852 to 1902.

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Southern Ndebele language

Southern Ndebele, also known as Transvaal Ndebele, isiNdebele, Ndebele or South Ndebele, is an African language belonging to the Nguni group of Bantu languages, spoken by the Ndebele people of South Africa.

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Transnet Freight Rail

Transnet Freight Rail is a South African rail transport company, formerly known as Spoornet.

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University of the Witwatersrand

The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, is a multi-campus South African public research university situated in the northern areas of central Johannesburg.

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Westcliff, Gauteng

Westcliff is an affluent suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Zulu language

Zulu (Zulu: isiZulu) is the language of the Zulu people, with about 10 million speakers, the vast majority (over 95%) of whom live in South Africa.

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Parktown Gauteng, Parktown, Gauteng, Parktown, Johannesburg.

References

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

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