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The Municipality consists of the towns Bethlehem (incl. Bohlokong & Bakenpark), Clarens (incl. Kgubetswana), Fouriesburg (incl. Mashaeng), Paul Roux (incl. Fateng-Tse-Ntsho) and Rosendal (incl. Mautse). Bethlehem is situated approximately 240 km north-east of Bloemfontein, 140 km east of Kroonstad and 90 km west of Harrismith.
English: Early morning view on Bohlokong and Thorisong townships in Bethlehem, Free State, South Africa. Bethlehem Comprehensive Secondary School, in Thorisong township, can be seen at top left. The Liebenbergsvlei river is in the foreground (downstream of the Saulspoort dam), a conduit for water from the Lesotho Highlands Water Project.
Bethlehem is situated approximately 240 kilometres (150 mi) north-east of Bloemfontein, 140 kilometres (87 mi) east of Kroonstad and 90 kilometres (56 mi) north-west of Harrismith. The city is strategically situated in the heart of the picturesque north-eastern Free State and originally developed as a service centre.
"West Indies" or "West India" was a part of the names of several companies of the 17th and 18th centuries, including the Danish West India Company, the Dutch West India Company, the French West India Company, and the Swedish West India Company. [12] West Indian is the official term used by the U.S. government to refer to people of the West ...
Bohlokong Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Bohlokong, Free State, South Africa. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Super Eagles F.C. This article about a sports venue in South Africa is a stub .
A notable residential property named a historic landmark in its own right by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, the 3,000 square foot mansion was formerly owned by Eugene Grace, President of Bethlehem Steel from 1916 to 1945. Often described as "the other Grace House" in reference to Grace's far more famous mansion in West ...
The present-day location of the city was established by English settlers in 1628; a previous settlement under the authority of Sir William Courten was at St. James Town. Bridgetown is a major West Indies tourist destination, and the city acts as an important financial, informatics, convention centre, and cruise ship port of call in the ...
British West Indies in 1900 BWI in red and pink (blue islands are other territories with English as an official language). The British West Indies (BWI) were the territories in the West Indies under British rule, including Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, the Turks and Caicos Islands, Montserrat, the British Virgin Islands, Bermuda, Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada ...