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Manzini
Manzini , formerly Bremersdorp , town (1996 est. pop. 69,800), central Swaziland. It is the trade center of a farming region. Founded in 1890, the town was the capital of Swaziland protectorate from 1894 to 1902.
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Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 4/27/1994; 35 words
; A row of homes lie shattered as a tornado yesterday ripped through the former cotton farming region of Lancaster, Texas, killing three and destroying as many as 200 homes. Damage to the area could reach $250 million. / AP PHOTO
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Villages flooded by swollen river
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/1/2001; 29 words
; AT LEAST two more villages were flooded by Poland's rain-swollen Vistula river yesterday when waters broke through a hastily built sandbag dyke in a farming region south-east of Warsaw.
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Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/14/2002; 45 words
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; ...outside Neyshabur, an ancient city of 170,000 people in a farming region 400 miles east of the capital, Tehran. The dead also included...an explosion," she said. Neyshabur is at the center of a farming region for cotton, fruit and grain. Other industries include carpets...
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Rain or Shine...
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Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/27/2002; 66 words
; ...rains on Sunday and Monday that followed a devastating four-year drought. Thirty people were killed in Settat, a rural farming region 45 miles south-east of Casablanca. The town of El Gara alone suffered 19 dead and eight others were missing.
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; ...in thefts of metal and metal equipment from farms points to drug users. Assembly member Tom Berryhill, who represents the farming region of Modesto, has sponsored a bill, AB 844, to place restrictions on purchasers of metals. Farming groups report a 400 percent...
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Wisconsin plant expansion. (News).
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; ...the Columbus, Wisconsin plant to house the new production lines for biscuits, sweet rolls and bread dough. The employees are proud of the new production area, spiral freezer and three new flour silos overlooking this beautiful farming region.
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THE QUEEN OF SEOUL.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland); 4/22/1999; ; 214 words
; ...in masks. On the third day of her state visit, the Queen flew 200 miles from the South Korean capital Seoul to the remote farming region of Andong. There she shared a traditional celebration with five people with the same birthday. Hundreds of villagers turned...
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Manzini
Book article from: Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names
Manzini, Swaziland KwaManzini, Bremersdorp ‘Bremer's Village’, from the Afrikaans dorp...who opened a store here in 1887. In 1960 a shortened form of the original name ‘Place of Manzini’ was adopted. This referred to Manzini Motsa, the local chief. It was the Boer capital of ...
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Bremersdorp
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Swaziland: see Manzini .
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Swaziland
Encyclopedia entry from: Cities of the World
SWAZILAND Kingdom of Swaziland Major City: Mbabane Other City: Manzini EDITOR'S NOTE This chapter was adapted from the Department of State Post Report for Swaziland. Supplemental material has been added...
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Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
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Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...range. (A veld is a grassland.) The total number of Swazis is about 1 million people. The two major cities are Mbabane and Manzini. 3 • LANGUAGE The Swazi language is referred to as "siSwati." It is a tonal Bantu language of the Nguni group, closely...
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