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Definition von kap şehri im Türkisch Englisch wörterbuch
- Cape Town
- The legislative capital of South Africa
- legislative capital of South Africa
- a large city in South Africa near the Cape of Good Hope. It is built around Table Mountain, and South Africa's parliament building is there. Afrikaans Kaapstad City (pop., 1996 est., metro. area: 2,415,408), legislative capital, South Africa. Located on Table Bay, it was formerly the capital of Cape Province. Long the country's major seaport, it was surpassed in the 1980s by Durban. The first settlement at Table Bay, it was founded by the Dutch navigator Jan van Riebeeck for the Dutch East India Co., and it soon served as a stopover for ships plying the Europe-to-India route. It was under Dutch rule intermittently until it was taken by the British in 1806. Today it is a commercial and cultural centre. See also Pretoria; Bloemfontein
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