Cape Town
Details
- Names
Cape Town
Capetown
Ciudad del Cabo
Kapstadt
Kapstad
Le Cap
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Founded by navigator Jan van Riebeeck for the Dutch East India Company; controlled by the Dutch until it fell to Great Britain in 1795; Treaty of Amiens in 1803 returned it to the Dutch; retaken by British in 1806; national legislative capital.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- BHA, Authority file (1973-); Cambridge World Gazetteer (1988); Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990); Canby, Historic Places (1984); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985); NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998); Rand McNally Atlas (1991); Times Atlas of the World (1988); Times Atlas of the World (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
- Born
Jonathan Comerford (British, born South Africa, active 20th and 21st centuries)
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