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African politician
Born Marthinus Wessel PRETORIUS
First president of the South African Republic
Born on September 17, 1819 in Graaff-Reinet, Cape Colony, South African Republic
Died on May 19, 1901 in Potchefstroom, South African Republic
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He originally named the town Pretoria Philadelphia, in honour of his father and his father's brothers, but the name of the town was later shortened to just Pretoria.
... In an endeavour to establish a new town, he bought two farms named Elandspoort en Daspoort between 1854 and 1855, on which he founded the city of Pretoria in 1855.
He originally named the town Pretoria Philadelphia, in honour of his father and his father's brothers, but the name of the town was later shortened to just Pretoria.
Five years later the capital of the ZAR (Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek or South African Republic in English) was moved from Potchefstroom to Pretoria.
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