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Pretoria

noun

City in the Transvaal; the seat of the executive branch of the government of South Africa. Synonym: capital of South Africa.

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"Pretoria" Quotes from Famous Books

... travels in January, 1914, when we left for South Africa. There we held a number of sittings, taking evidence at Capetown, Oudtshoorn, Port Elizabeth, East London, Kimberley, Bloemfontein, Durban, Pietermaritzburg, Pretoria and Johannesburg. Our journeys to these various places were so planned as to involve our travelling over most of the principal railway lines of the Union, so that we were able to see a considerable portion ...

— Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland • Joseph Tatlow

... at the station greeted me, and it was my old theatre orderly at No. 7 Pretoria. We were very pleased to see each other. I fitted him out with a pack of cards, post-cards, acid drops, and a nice grey pair ...

— Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 • Anonymous

Words linked to "Pretoria" : capital of South Africa, Republic of South Africa, national capital, South Africa