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Gqeberha, the city's official name since 23 February 2021, is a Xhosa word for the Baakens river, which flows through the city. [24] [25]In 1820, the rising seaport of Algoa Bay was named "Port Elizabeth" in memory of Elizabeth Frances (née Markham), the wife of Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin, acting Governor of the Cape Colony. [26]
The Port of Gqeberha is a port in the city of Gqeberha, in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Located in Algoa Bay, it handles dry bulk, bulk liquid, breakbulk and containers, as well as providing facilities for tugs and fishing vessels. [3] In the 2023 World Bank Container Port Performance Index, the port was ranked 391st out of 405. [4]
9/2/073/0006 Fort Frederick, Belmont Terrace, Port Elizabeth Built overlooking the original lagoon at the mouth of the Baakens River. At the time it was the only stone structure in the district.
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For example, you may pronounce cot and caught the same, do and dew, or marry and merry. This often happens because of dialect variation (see our articles English phonology and International Phonetic Alphabet chart for English dialects). If this is the case, you will pronounce those symbols the same for other words as well. [1]
El Ain (Arabic: العين), Al Ain, or Ain is a village at an elevation of 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) on a foothill of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains in the Baalbek District of the Baalbek-Hermel Governorate, Lebanon. It is famous for agriculture and trade, located on the highway connecting Syrian borders and the Hermel area with Chtaura and Beirut.
Ayin (also ayn or ain; transliterated ʿ ) is the sixteenth letter of the Semitic scripts, including Arabic ʿayn ع , Aramaic ʿē 𐡏, Hebrew ʿayin ע , Phoenician ʿayin 𐤏, and Syriac ʿē ܥ (where it is sixteenth in abjadi order only).
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