Doornkop
Sign in to saveDoornkop (literally "thorn hill") is a ridge and locality on the western outskirts of Soweto in the Gauteng Province, South Africa. The area is currently being subsumed by the westward expansion of Soweto and the eastward growth of Krugersdorp's Kagiso township. Suburbs include Tshepisong, Leratong Village, Bambayi and Thulani. Doornkop is also known as Thulani, Snakepark and Silvertown.
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Vinony's link graph records 1,500 inbound references to Doornkop, and connects out to University of the Witwatersrand, Witwatersrand and Rising Star Cave.
The entry is geolocated on the map in ZA, across 3 mapped points.
It is catalogued under topics including Johannesburg Region D and Use South African English from July 2021.
Vinony links it to 6 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Instance of
- town
- Country
- South Africa
- Elevation
- 1612
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- postal code
- 1821
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Jameson raid 1895-1896
- Battle of Johannesburg 1900
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- Right Flank of Lt Gen Ian Hamilton
- References
Doornkop (literally "thorn hill") is a ridge and locality on the western outskirts of Soweto in the Gauteng Province, South Africa. The area is currently being subsumed by the westward expansion of Soweto and the eastward growth of Krugersdorp's Kagiso township. Suburbs include Tshepisong, Leratong Village, Bambayi and Thulani. Doornkop is also known as Thulani, Snakepark and Silvertown.
There is another place named Doornkop, a community 15 km north of Middelburg in the Steve Tshwete Local Municipality in Mpumalanga.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Doornkop” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
3 mapped locations