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Graaff-Reinet
Graaff-Reinet is a town in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, founded in 1786 by the Dutch East India Company as the seat of its eastern frontier district. In 1795 its burghers, angry at the Company's frontier policy towards the Xhosa and San, expelled the landdrost and proclaimed a republic. It is one of the oldest towns in South Africa and known for its Cape Dutch architecture.
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