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Hartbeespoort, informally known as "Harties", is a small resort town in the North West Province of South Africa, situated on slopes of the Magaliesberg mountain and the banks of the Hartbeespoort Dam. The name of the town means "gateway of the hartbees" (a species of antelope) in Afrikaans.
Founded by catholic immigrants from Baden, the village was named after an early settler named Maurus Biehle, who donated land to the settlement. Bingen: Washington: Named for Bingen am Rhein in 1892 by founder P. J. Suksdorf [16]: 19 Birkenfeld: Oregon: Named after Anton Birkenfeld, a German immigrant who founded the community in 1910. [17 ...
The German-speaking settlers came from a variety of countries and religious backgrounds, but most became assimilated to Anglo-American language and culture beginning in the second half of the 19th century with English-language evangelism efforts and the outlawing of German-language schooling.
When Heinrich XI, Prince Reuss of Greiz was appointed by Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor to rule the then-new Principality of Reuss-Greiz on 12 May 1778, the flag adopted by the Fürstentum Reuß-Greiz was the first-ever appearance of the black-red-gold tricolour in its modern arrangement in any sovereign state within what today comprises Germany ...
In this map of German colonies, yellow marks Klein-Venedig and red the Prussian colonies, some of them in the Caribbean. Klein-Venedig ("Little Venice"; also the etymology of the name "Venezuela") was the most significant part of the German colonization of the Americas between 1528 and 1546.
Historic flag of the ... of 15,313 Palatines left their villages in 1709 "for the so-called New America ... was founded in Germany in 1996 in the ...
The flag was first proposed and adopted under the leadership of Otto von Bismarck, where it would be used as the flag of the North German Confederation which was formed in 1867. [3] During the Franco-Prussian War, the German Empire was founded (i.e., the South German states joined the Confederation).
The R514 starts from the M1, north of the city centre, and terminates at the R511 in Hartbeespoort. [31] The R513 crosses Pretoria's northern suburbs from east to west. It links Pretoria to Cullinan and Bronkhorstspruit in the east and Hartbeespoort in the west. [31] The R566 takes origin in Pretoria's northern suburbs, connecting Pretoria to ...