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	Philippolis - Part of the Griqua Nation's History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Philippolis, the oldest town in the Free State, traces its history to a mission station founded in 1823 on a site chosen by the Reverend Dr John Philip, superintendent of the London Missionary Society's (LMS) operations in South Africa.
		The Dutch Reformed Church co-operated with the LMS on this project, and in 1825 the Reverend Dr A. Faure of the Graaff-Reinet congregation founded a school at Philippolis for Griqua nomads.
		No nails or screws were used.The exhibits of the Transgariep Museum cover four themes: the LMS effort; the history of the Griquas and their leader Adam Kok, whose house has also been preserved; Emily Hobhouse and her spinning and weaving school; and early leaders of the community.
	about-south-africa.com /html/philippolis.html (522 words)

	Haunting Landscapes of the Karoo
		Philippolis is the oldest white settlement in the Free State and has enough history to justify a visit.
		It was the capital of the Griquas in the mid-19th century as is demonstrated in the surviving Griqua cottages and in a small museum, whose distinction is that it is the only museum I know which specialises in the sale of alcholic liquor - the notorious Free State witblitz, a mighty hooch akin to grappa.
		Philippolis is the oldest mission station in the Free State, and it is home to several declared national monuments.
	www.encounter.co.za /cgi-bin/magazine/ds.cgi?id=40 (293 words)

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		In the long run, Philippolis has seen a positive side to this rerouting of the national road – serious crime is very rare, property prices have remained largely affordable and national monuments have remained protected and cared for.
		Philippolis, the oldest settlement in the Free State, has the most national monuments in the province after Bloemfontein and Bethlehem.
		It is here in Philippolis that the Griqua leader, Adam Kok established his command post, writer Laurens van der Post was born and Emily Hobhouse established a school of weaving.
	philippolis.co.za /philippolis.html (751 words)

	Philippolis Fossils
		In the region of Philippolis two fossils where found, a fish fossil which belonged to the order of Palaeonisciformes and a reptile which belonged to the Eodicynodon family.
		The Philippolis fish fossil belongs to the Order Palaeonisciformes, which is the earliest order of ray-finned (actinopertygian) fish.
		The Philippolis fish fossil is about 280 million years old, from rocks of the Lower Karoo Supergroup.
	www.places.co.za /html/philip_fossil.html (223 words)

	Xhariep District Municipality
		[Bethulie] [Edenburg] [Fauresmith] [Gariep Dam] [Jacobsdal] [Jagersfontein] [Koffiefontein] [Luckhoff] [Petrusburg] [Philippolis] [Reddersburg] [Rouxville] [Smithfield] [Springfontein] [Trompsburg] [Zastron]
		Philippolis is the oldest settlement in the Free State and its origin can be traced as far back as a mission station that received its name from Rev. John Philip in 1823.
		Philippolis is truly a journey through the past in the present where old historic canons keep watch over present times.
	www.xhariep.co.za /towns.htm (2798 words)

	Sunday Times - South Africa's best selling newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Philippolis is the town where my father and his large family of brothers and sisters were brought up.
		For my father, whose early beginnings as a writer were surrounded by great practical difficulties and constant worry about money, nothing would have pleased him more than the thought of this little retreat giving an artist, a writer or a musician some space or time in which to explore their talents.
		Philippolis still needs a few more things to bring it to life: a really good restaurant, a coffee house, some livelier shops, perhaps some living crafts on view - but these are on the way.
	www.suntimes.co.za /2002/03/03/lifestyle/life03.asp (2491 words)

	van der Post (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		On entering Philippolis via the northern main road one encounters the site, a transition from landscape to town, as well as a significant link between the former township, Poding-Tse-Rolo and the town of Philippolis.
		The second dimension, the journey of the soul is expressed as a segment of a circle, thus indicating repentance, growth and development as never ending processes.
		In the words of Laurens van der Post “Birth, as it were, seen from without, was an exit, and death… an entrance into a new universe of meaning.” Consequently birth, or death, can be experienced as either an entrance or an exit, depending on your position.
	stayinjail.tripod.com /van_der_post.htm (842 words)

	Griquas from South Africa - History and Facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		One semi-nomadic group, mostly Bergenaars (mountain people), settled at Philippolis, an LMS mission in southern Transorangia, in 1825 under the leadership of Adam Kok II (c.
		Many Griquas at Philippolis became successful commercial farmers, particularly in response to the economic opportunities offered by merino sheep farming.
		Towards the end of the 1830s, the Griquas at Philippolis began to suffer white encroachment on their lands.
	about-south-africa.com /html/griquas.html (598 words)

	Philippolis
		Philippolis is a town rich in history: Bushman, Griqua, Englishmen, Boer and Jew - each one of them made sure to leave their mark.
		Located on a hillock behind the Transgariep Museum are two cannons once used for the defence of the Griqua people by Adam Kok.
		Laurens Jan van der Post — born in Philippolis, December 13, 1906, the thirteenth of fifteen children - led an extraordinary and eventful life and one of great significance for our time; both in peacetime and in war.
	www.places.co.za /html/philippolis.html (261 words)

	Some Account of the Diocese of Bloemfontein, by Archdeacon Crisp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Besides Bloemfontein, Winburg, Smithfield, Philippolis, Fauresmith and Harrismith, towns already alluded to, in the west the villages of Boshof and Jacobsdal, and in the north those of Kroonstad and Bethlehem, had been founded.
		In November, 1863, the Bishop, in answer to the summons of the Metropolitan, journeyed to Capetown, to sit as one of the assessors in the trial of Bishop Colenso of Natal for false teaching.
		A remnant of the tribe had remained at Philippolis, and their accounts of the Griqua settlement in the new country had aroused the Bishop's sympathies.
	justus.anglican.org /resources/pc/africa/za/crisp_bloem02.html (3479 words)

	Philippolis Municipality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Entrance to Philippolis with church tower in the background
		Philippolis is a small community (population 6800) and consists of four residential areas: Philippolis central, Rowelsfontein (mainly small-holdings), Poding-Tse-Rolo, and Bergmanshoogte.
		During April, the annual Witblits Festival is held in Philippolis, and large quantities of `witblits' (schnapps) are produced in the still which is kept in the Museum.
	home.intekom.com /tda/philippolis/philippo1.htm (196 words)

	Philippolis on Line
		Philippolis is the oldest settlement in the Free State province of South Africa, and lies midway (well almost) between Johannesburg and Cape Town just off the N1 Highway.
		Philippolis Online aims to provide you with a glimpse of what awaits you in Philippolis.
		Philippolis is your ideal holiday destination where you can rest your city-tired body and soul, enjoying the peace and tranquillity that only the "Heart of the Transgariep*" can offer.
	home.intekom.com /tda/philippolis (226 words)

	The Cape Records relative to the condition and treatment of the native tribes of South Africa from an inquiry ...
		Upon the slightest provocation the were shot like wild beasts, and the lands and springs they were dispossessed with much more violence and less ceremony than the boers had dared to do in the worst of times.
		Of these there were 700 boers for several months during the year in the district of Philippolis alone with at least 700,000 sheep, cattle and horses.
		Besides destroying the pastures of this people, in many instances their corn fields were destroyed by them and in some cases they took possession of their houses.
	www.tokencoins.com /inquiry.htm (545 words)

	Xhariep District Municipality :: Kopanong Municipal Municipality
		The nine towns situated in Kopanong are Trompsburg (municipal head office), Gariep Dam, Springfontein, Bethulie, Philippolis, Jagersfontein, Fauresmith, Edenburg and Reddersburg.
		During 2000/2001, according to LDO documents, the Kopanong population was estimated on 53 947 at an average of 3,55 people per square kilometre.
		Those with a heart for history could wander through the oldest town in the Free State (Philippolis) and look at numerous reminders of the lifestyles of nearly two centuries ago, or they could travel through Kopanong in search of the many memorabilia of the Anglo-Boer War.
	www.xhariep.co.za /kapanong.htm (715 words)

	Transgariep Museum, Philippolis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		When Philippolis and its museum are mentioned the Witblits Festival comes to the mind almost simultaneously.
		Each year, visitors from all over flock to Philippolis to attend the fair.
		The museum exhibitions portray the Griqua history, Emily Hobhouse’s Spinning and Weaving Schools, a horse mill and an open-air oven.
	www.fs.gov.za /Departments/SAC/MUSEUM/philippolis.html (57 words)

	Guesthouses Philippolis \| Philippolis Guesthouses, 1 Guesthouses in Philippolis
		Philippolis Guesthouses - 1 Guesthouses in Philippolis South Africa
		Philippolis Guesthouse in Philippolis, Southern Free State, Free State, South Africa
		In Philippolis in the southern Free State you can switch off completely and forget about rush-hour traffic and deadlines.
	www.safarinow.com /Destinations/Philippolis/guesthouses.aspx (64 words)

	m a m b a o n l i n e (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Before 1972, until the construction of the N1, Philippolis was on the main road between Johannesburg and Cape Town.
		Described as the “Free State’s Stellenbosch”, Philippolis is the oldest colonial town in the Free State and after Bloemfontein and Bethlehem has the most national monuments in the province.
		He was born in Philippolis, South Africa, on the 13th of December 1906.
	www.mambaonline.com /feature/feature_philippolis.php (1047 words)

	DCP: 30 degrees south, 25 degrees east
		I accompanied my wife, who took some of her post-graduate students for a field trip to Philippolis, a small but historical town in the southern Free State province.
		The CP lies ± 40 km northwest of Philippolis, and south of Jagersfontein and Koffiefontein (Coffee fountain), both diamond-mining towns established in the 1870's.
		After a visit to the Van der Post Centre, dedicated to Sir Laurens van der Post who was born in the town, I set off on a gravel road, which leads to the CP.
	www.confluence.org /confluence.php?visitid=6587 (414 words)

	ZA@Play - Books: On a mission 16/02/99 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Tidied up from their hunting-trading ways into a buffer nation-state, they flourished with a capital (Griquatown, and later also Philippolis), naturally an arsenal, a flag and even a currency (the ½d bit, of course, bearing a dove and olive branch).
		The documents compiled by Schoeman pertaining to the Philippolis Captaincy of 1825 to 1861 have been available for a while from the Van Riebeeck Society (No 25 of the Second Series, known as the Griqua Records).
		Drawn from the archives of the London Missionary Society and the depots of the Cape and Free State Archives, this is the dry as dust story of Transorangia, mostly in all-over-the-place Dutch (with English translations in the welcome appendix), and mostly to do with law-making and breaking and other such affairs of state.
	www.chico.mweb.co.za /books/9902/990216-mission.html (674 words)

	Philippolis restaurants \| restaurants Philippolis, South Africa
		Philippolis restaurants are classified by food type and ambience.
		Select from fine dining restaurants, trendy restaurants, family restaurants, wine farms restaurants in Philippolis.
		It is essential to book early if you plan to dine in Cape Town, Durban or along the Garden Route to Knysna, Plettenberg Bay etc especially in the Philippolis high season.
	www.dining-out.co.za /Restaurants/default.asp?LocationID=831 (127 words)

	Philippolis Bokpost Guest Farm - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Drives to various places are easily accessible due to the strategically located guesthouse.
		Visit Philippolis with its rich historical heritage and architecture.
		Drive to the Gariep Dam and go inside its colossal cement wall, visit the Anglo-Boer War Graveyard at Norvalspont or visit the different game reserves at Tussen-die-Riviere, Doornkloof or at the Gariepdam.
	www.gribbo.com /116.htm (502 words)

	Some Account of the Diocese of Bloemfontein, by Archdeacon Crisp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Adam Kok, with his division of the Griquas, was settled at Philippolis, and some captains of less important portions of the same people had settlements in its western districts.
		Between Thabanchu and Philippolis a refugee tribe of Batlhaping had formed a settlement at Bethulie.
		Here and there, from time to time, bands of Koranna were located, and the Berlin Missionary Society had just founded their station at Bethany.
	justus.anglican.org /resources/pc/africa/za/crisp_bloem01.html (2048 words)

	Philippolis - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Philippolis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Here you will find more informations about Philippolis.
		If you find this encyclopedia or its sister projects useful,
		Philippolis is a small town in the Free State Province of South Africa.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Philippolis.html (105 words)

	Philippolis Old Jail, Self Catering Apartment/ Maisonette/ Chalet accommodation in Philippolis
		Philippolis Old Jail, Self Catering Apartment/ Maisonette/ Chalet accommodation in Philippolis
		The jail was built in 1872 in Philippolis, the oldest "nedersetting" (1823) in the Free State.
		Philippolis Old Jail, Self Catering Apartment/ Maisonette/ Chalet Accommodation in Philippolis, Transgariep & Goldfields, Free State, South Africa
	www.wheretostay.co.za /_scripts/printable.php?est=oldjail (301 words)

	IFP Speeches - 19 January 2002
		I thank Sir Laurens van der Post's daughter, Lucia, for having invited me again to come to Philippolis with her to pay tribute to my beloved friend and sage that he was to me and to many people in the world.
		I welcome the culmination of this project, the seed of which, I am told, was sown at the opening of the Memorial Garden in April 1998.
		As evidenced by the beauty of the Retreat and Museum, I am pleased that this new task has been taken on with the same commitment to quality and artistic talent which characterises the Memorial Garden.
	www.ifp.org.za /Archive/Speeches/190102sp.htm (1559 words)

	SABCnews.com - south_africa/general
		The Chinese tiger is being saved from extinction by a programme of breeding in places abroad, including the Free State.
		Two Chinese tiger cubs were airlifted to the Laohu Valley reserve near Philippolis in the southern Free State today, the organiser of the Save China's Tiger Project said.
		Quan said today the provincial permit requirements had been met and the tigers could now be released in the reserve near Philippolis.
	www.sabcnews.com /south_africa/general/0,2172,87426,00.html (368 words)

	AllRefer.com - John V, Byzantine emperor (Ancient History, Late Roman And Byzantine, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Forced to fight John VI (John Cantacuzene), who usurped the throne during his minority, he came into power in 1354.
		In his reign the Ottoman Turks took Adrianople and Philippolis, conquered Serbia, and exacted tribute from the emperor.
		John vainly tried to heal the schism between East and West in order to secure Western aid against the Turks.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/J/John5Byz.html (284 words)

	Tiger fight gets catty
		Philippolis - A London banker is threatening Discovery Channel with a $50m lawsuit if the channel broadcasts a film about tigers, which was produced in Philippolis.
		Stuart Bray, a London banker, contributed the lion's share to establish the Tigermoon Sanctuary outside Philippolis in 2002.
		The Vartys say they only used their own land outside Philippolis for filming purposes.
	www.news24.com /News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1413908,00.html (534 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Monophysites and Monophysitism
		After he had been exiled by Justin to Philippolis in Thrace in 518, he attacked the orthodox patriarch, Paul of Antioch, in a letter to the monks of Teleda, and wrote another letter of which fragments are found in MS.
		He was an energetic foe of Catholicism, and his works stand next in importance to those of Severus as witnesses to the tenets of their party.
		He was exiled by Justin in 519 to Philippolis and then to Gangra, where he died of suffocation by smoke in the room in which he was confined.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10489b.htm (8859 words)

	SABCnews.com
		Byna tien jaar na demokratiese veranderinge in die land wonder plaaswerkers soos Petrus Diamond wanneer dit nou eintlik beter sal gaan met hom, sy vrou en sy drie kinders.
		Hy werk op die plaas Bokpost naby Philippolis in die Vrystaat waar munisipale dienste nog nie uitgekom het nie.
		Twee kleinboere van Philippolis, Kafee Khoa en sy seun Tiekie droom oor 'n plaas met baie water waar hulle kan voer kweek vir hulle melkbeeste.
	www.sabcnews.com /fokus/farafrik.html (311 words)

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