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Why is it called Elizabeth?

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Mohammed Parisian

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5y ago
Updated: 5/21/2021

Port Elizabeth was established in 1820 as a British settlement around Fort Frederick (1799; the oldest British building in southern Africa) and was incorporated as a town in 1861. It was named by Sir Rufane Donkin, the acting governor of the Cape Colony, for his deceased wife, Lady Elizabeth.

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Sim Muller

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4y ago

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