Griekwastad
Sign in to saveGriekwastad is a country town in South Africa. It is sometimes still called Griquatown (the meaning of the town's name in Afrikaans), a name which is now considered historical. On maps from the 1840s is the town also called "Karrikamma", or called ’Gatee t’Kamma according to the book The native races of South Africa.
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 114 inbound references to Griekwastad, and connects out to Northern Cape, Lydenburg and Utrecht.
The entry is geolocated on the map in ZA, across 3 mapped points.
Vinony files it under 1812 establishments in Africa, Populated places established in 1812 and Populated places in the Siyancuma Local Municipality.
Vinony links it to 12 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Griekwastad
- Settlement.official_name
- Griekwastad
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Griekwastad road.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Road in Griekwastad
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- South Africa Northern Cape#South Africa
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- South Africa
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Northern Cape
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Pixley ka Seme
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Siyancuma
- Settlement.subdivision_type4
- Main Place
- Settlement.established_title
- Established
- Settlement.established_date
- 1812
- Settlement.leader_title
- Councillor
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 77.74
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Country
- South Africa
- Located in
- Siyancuma Local Municipality
- Image
- Griekwastad road.jpg
- Dialing code
- 053
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- inception
- 1812-04-12
- postal code
- 8365
- Commons category
- Griquastad
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Crime
- References
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Griekwastad is a country town in South Africa. It is sometimes still called Griquatown (the meaning of the town's name in Afrikaans), a name which is now considered historical. On maps from the 1840s is the town also called "Karrikamma", or called ’Gatee t’Kamma according to the book The native races of South Africa.
The town is on the N8 road in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa by road west from the city of Kimberley. It was the first town to be established in the country north of the Orange River.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Griekwastad” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
3 mapped locations