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ID: 1092863
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1092863
Record Type:
administrative
Bellville (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 33 55 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -33.9167
decimal degrees
Long: 018 38 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 18.6333
decimal degrees
Note:
Developed from a village called Twelfth Mile Stone; named after Charles D Bell, a surveyor general of the Cape in the 19th cen.; situated on the chief railroad from Cape Town to Johannesburg; located within the Cape Peninsula urban area.
Names:
Bellville
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
since 1861
Twelfth Mile Stone
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
South Africa
(nation) (
P
)
............
Western Cape
(province) (
P
)
................
Bellville
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 1861 on site that had been settled earlier
town (
C
)
............
since 1940
industrial center (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
............
for paper & food products, bricks, tiles & fertilizers
transportation center (
C
)
............
includes rail lines & airport
educational center (
C
)
............
houses University of Western Cape for racially mixed South Africans
tourist center (
C
)
............
includes access to Tygerberg summit
Sources and Contributors:
Bellville..........
[
VP Preferred
]
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
II, 81
....................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
25
Twelfth Mile Stone..........
[
VP
]
...................................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 81
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
II, 81
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 81
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
25
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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