Philipstown, South Africa
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philipstown-south-africa-284-17166488
title:
Philipstown, South Africa
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Philipstown is a town in the eastern Karoo region of South Africa. Town 56 km north-east of De Aar. It was established in May 1863 on the farm Rietfontein and became a municipality in August 1876. Named after Sir Philip Wodehouse (1811–1887), Governor of the Cape Colony from 1861 to 1870. At the jailhouse to the west of town is the building where a small force of the 65th Imperial Yeomanry and Native Police held off a large force of General De Wet's men during the Second Anglo-Boer War. During t
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Place in Northern Cape, South Africa
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipstown,_South_Africa
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2024-03-30T11:28:45Z
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