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Pietermaritzburg City Hall found on a photo album dated 1924. The city was occupied by Voortrekkers, in April 1838 following the murder of Piet Retief and his seventy-strong party at the Zulu Capital, Mgungundlovu (6 February 1838), when seeking land to settle around Port Natal (The Natal-Land Treaty), and from where the reprisal Wenkommando departed (November 1838) to defeat Dingane at the ...
1839. Pietermaritzburg founded by Voortrekkers; named after Gerrit Maritz and Piet Retief. [ 1] October: Settlement becomes capital of the newly formed Natalia Republic. 1840 - Voortrekker Church of the Vow consecrated. [ 2] 1843. British Fort Napier [ af] established. [ 3][ 4] Natalier newspaper begins publication.
Spanish naming customs include the orthographic option of conjoining the surnames with the conjunction particle y, or e before a name starting with 'I', 'Hi' or 'Y', (both meaning "and") (e.g., José Ortega y Gasset, Tomás Portillo y Blanco, or Eduardo Dato e Iradier), following an antiquated aristocratic usage.
9/2/436/0071. Dudgeon House, 385 Longmarket Street, Pietermaritzburg. A single storey verandah house with corrugated iron roof, plastered brick walls in simulated stone c was designed by Phillip Dudgeon, the architect of the Standard Bank and Clark House in Pietermaritzbu Type of site: commercial Current use: office.
Relief with the names of the farmhouses of Getxo, on the wall of Saint Mary's church. As is the legal convention in Spain, Basques in the South have double legal surnames, the first being that of the father and the second that of the mother. In the North, Basques legally have only one surname as is the convention in France.
The following is a list of mayors of Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. The British dominated Pietermaritzburg government until the second half of the 20th century. National white minority rule in South Africa ended in 1994. When the Msunduzi Local Municipality formed circa 2001, its mayoralty included Pietermaritzburg. D. D. Buchanan, 1854 [ 1]
New Spain was the first of the viceroyalties that Spain created, the second being Peru in 1542, following the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire. Both New Spain and Peru had dense indigenous populations at conquest as a source of labor and material wealth in the form of vast silver deposits, discovered and exploited beginning in the mid-1500s.
These are the lists of the most common Spanish surnames in Spain, Mexico, Hispanophone Caribbean (Puerto Rico, Cuba, Dominican Republic), and other Latin American countries. The surnames for each section are listed in numerically descending order, or from most popular to least popular.