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Keetmanshoop · Alexandria

Place · 1866 CE

Keetmanshoop

Also known as

Cēetmānhop
Ketmanshopas
Kokerbaumwald
Modderfontein
Swartmodder
Кетмансхоп

Image illustrating Keetmanshoop — archival plate · Wikimedia Commons · Keetmanshoopsee Wikimedia Commons

This entry is a stub. The Library is awakening — a longer account is being written.

Connected to

place of death ofGary Bricknell1954 CE
birthplace ofIngeborg Körner1929 CE
birthplace ofKenneth Yates1938 CE
birthplace ofKobus Brand1994 CE
birthplace ofLesley Klim1995 CE

+ 3 further connections to entries not yet ingested

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birthplace of

Nicolaas Scholtz1986 CE

birthplace ofPieter Rossouw1980 CE

birthplace ofZenatha Coleman1993 CE