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Encyclopedia Britannica



WINBURG

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 701 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WIL-YAK
WINBURG , a town in the Orange Free State, 90 M. N.E. by
rail
  of Bloemfontein. Pop. (1904) 2762, of whom 1003 were whites. It is built by the banks of a tributary of the Vet affluent of the Vaal, and is a trading centre for a large
grain
  and
pastoral
 
district
 . It is joined to the trunk railway from Port Elizabeth to the Transvaal by a branch line from Smaldeel, 28 m. N.W. The town was founded in 1837 by Commandant H.
Potgieter
 , one of the voortrekers, and was named by him in commemoration of a victory gained over the Matabele
chief
  Mosilikatze. It became the
capital
  of a quasi-independent Boer state, which included considerable areas north of the Vaal. In 1848 the town and
district
  were annexed to
Great
  Britain and thereafter followed the fortunes of the Orange river
sovereignty
  (see ORANGE FREE STATE). In the Boer War of 18991902 Winburg was one of the Boer centres in the guerrilla fighting which followed the fall of
Pretoria
 .


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