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Durban
Durban , city (1991 pop. 473,826), KwaZulu-Natal, E South Africa, on Natal Bay, an arm of the Indian Ocean. Durban is an industrial center, a major seaport, and a year-round resort. Industries include sugar refining, shipbuilding and ship repairing, petroleum refining, fishing, automobile assembly, and the manufacture of food products, paint, chemicals, fertilizers, soap, footwear, and textiles. Sugarcane is grown on nearby estates. Durban is the main port for the Witwatersrand and is connected by railroad with Johannesburg and other cities on the Rand. Its main exports are manganese and other ores, coal, sugar, and corn. Corporate parks abound in its suburbs and Louis Botha International Airport is nearby. Persons of Indian and Pakistani descent make up c.40% of the population. The site of Durban was visited in 1497 by Vasco da Gama, who named it Rio de Natal; British colonization began in 1824. The city, first called Port Natal by the British, was renamed Durban in 1835 after Sir Benjamin D'Urban, then governor of Cape Colony. In 1842, Boers (Afrikaners) besieged British troops in the Old Fort (now a museum) there. Gold was discovered in Johannesburg in the 1880s, and Durban became the chief commercial city of Natal and a major port after 1887, when the bay was dredged. The city was the site of the national convention (1908–09) that paved the way for the creation in 1910 of the Union of South Africa. Durban is the seat of the Univ. of Natal, Durban (1909), the Univ. of Durban-Westville (1960), and Natal College for Advanced Technical Education (1907). Also there are the Durban Museum and Art Gallery, the Old Courthouse and Kwa Muhle museums, an aquarium, Greyville Race Course, and the botanical gardens in the hilltop suburb of Berea. |
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Durban, France, South Africa South Africa (KwaZulu‐Natal): founded by the British in 1824 as Port Natal and renamed in 1835 after Lieutenant General Sir Benjamin D'Urban (1777–1849), governor of Cape Colony (1833–7), who had ordered the annexation of some territory held by the Boers; this became the new colony of Natal. Initially D'Urban, the spelling was simplified in 1854. The metropolitan area has a local Zulu name, eThekwini, which has different interpretations: ‘The Place of the Lagoon’ and ‘The Place of the Single Testicle’, a reference to the round shape of the bay and the nearby phallic‐shaped promontory which overlooks the bay when seen from the Berea Hills.
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JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Durban." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Durban." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O209-Durban.html JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Durban." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O209-Durban.html |
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Durban Seaport on the n shore of Durban Bay, South Africa. Founded in 1835, the national convention initiating the Union of South Africa was held here. The University of Natal (1949) and Natal University College (1960) are here. Industries: shipbuilding, oil refining, and chemicals. Pop. (1996) 2,117,700.
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"Durban." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Durban." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-Durban.html "Durban." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-Durban.html |
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