Cape Dutch, also commonly known as Cape Afrikaners, were a historic socioeconomic class of Afrikaners who lived in the Western Cape during the eighteenth...
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The Dutch Cape Colony (Dutch: Kaapkolonie) was a Dutch United East India Company (VOC) colony in Southern Africa, centered on the Cape of Good Hope, from...
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Cape Dutch architecture is an architectural style found mostly in the Western Cape of South Africa, but modern examples of the style have also been exported...
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Afrikaans (redirect from South African Dutch)
from the Dutch vernacular of South Holland (Hollandic dialect) spoken by the predominantly Dutch settlers and enslaved population of the Dutch Cape Colony...
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contracts to the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and had become full citizens (burghers). The introduction of Free Burghers to the Dutch Cape Colony is regarded...
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Bowl area of Cape Town is the oldest urban area in the Western Cape, with a significant cultural heritage. It was founded by the Dutch East India Company...
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the apartheid era. The Dutch East India Company (VOC) founded and established a colony at the Cape of Good Hope (the Dutch Cape Colony), as a resupply...
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Afrikaners (redirect from Dutch people in South Africa)
Southern African ethnic group descended from predominantly Dutch settlers first arriving at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652. Until 1994, they dominated South...
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The Cape Colony (Dutch: Kaapkolonie), also known as the Cape of Good Hope, was a British colony in present-day South Africa named after the Cape of Good...
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(1630–1654) Dutch Mauritius (1638–1710) Dutch Ceylon (1640–1796) Dutch Cape Colony (1652–1806) Dutch Malabar (1665–1795) Dutch Surinam (1667–1954) New Holland (Acadia)...
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of Dutch. It is spoken, to some degree, by at least 16 million people, mainly in South Africa and Namibia, evolving from Cape Dutch dialects. Dutch was...
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Boers (category Articles containing Dutch-language text)
eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. From 1652 to 1795, the Dutch East India Company controlled Dutch Cape Colony...
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called the cape Cabo das Tormentas ('Cape of Storms'; Dutch: Stormkaap), which was the original name of the cape. As one of the great capes of the South...
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from Cape Dutch, a forerunner of Afrikaans: hartebeest (modern Afrikaans equivalent is hartebees) scoff/skoff (as in scoffing food): from Cape Dutch schoff...
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By the 17th century, Dutch and British foodways brought via European immigration resulted in further culinary diffusion. The Cape Malay community founded...
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Stellenbosch (redirect from Stellenbosch, Western Cape)
(dating back to 1679), its many historic buildings that are typical of Cape Dutch architecture, its location in the centre of many famous wine farms, as...
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Swellendam (redirect from Swellendam, Western Cape)
of them buildings of Cape Dutch architecture. Swellendam is situated on the N2, approximately 220 km (140 miles) from both Cape Town and George. Early...
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The Dutch (Dutch: Nederlanders) are an ethnic group native to the Netherlands. They share a common ancestry and culture and speak the Dutch language....
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Malva pudding (redirect from Cape Brandy Pudding)
it. The pudding is thought to originally be of Dutch then Cape Dutch origin synonymous with the Cape. The pudding gained popularity on the West Coast...
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African Premier Division. Dutch Eredivisie club AFC Ajax was their parent club and majority shareholder after a merger of both Cape Town Spurs and Seven Stars...
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of the Cape Colony, Willem Adriaan van der Stel, whom the vrijburghers (free burghers, i.e. citizens of the colony not in the employ of the Dutch East India...
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Franschhoek (redirect from Franschhoek, Western Cape)
Afrikaans for "French Corner", Dutch spelling before 1947 Fransche Hoek, French: Le Coin Français) is a small town in the Western Cape Province and one of the...
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Mahlamba Ndlopfu (section Cape-Dutch style)
appointed by the Department of Public Works. Moerdijk decided to adopt the Cape Dutch style, a type of traditional house common among Boer and Afrikaans descendants...
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Wolraad Woltemade (category Dutch East India Company people)
Wolraad Woltemade (c.1708 – 1 June 1773) was a Cape Dutch dairy farmer, who died while rescuing sailors from the wreck of the ship De Jonge Thomas in Table...
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African Bantu". A separate Dutch Reformed Church, the Dutch Reformed Mission Church (DRMC), was formed in 1881 to serve the Cape Coloured Calvinist population...
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prominent Dutch gables but adjusted to the Western Cape region where the style became known as Cape Dutch architecture. The formation of Dutch gables requires...
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Paarl (redirect from Paarl, Western Cape)
meaning "pearl" in Dutch) is a city with 285,574 inhabitants in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It is the largest town in the Cape Winelands. Due...
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Cape Colony, also known as the Battle of Muizenberg (Dutch: Slag om Muizenberg), was a British military expedition launched in 1795 against the Dutch...
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(Dutch: Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie [vərˈeːnɪɣdə oːstˈɪndisə kɔmpɑˈɲi], abbreviated as VOC, Dutch: [veː.oːˈseː]), commonly known as the Dutch East...
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Tuynhuys, Cape Town Cape Dutch building in Stellenbosch. The Stellenbosch office of the Cape Winelands District Municipality A Cape Dutch homestead at...
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