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Philippolis
Philippolis is a small town in the south of the Free State province of South Africa, founded in 1823 as a mission station of the London Missionary Society. It became the centre of the Griqua under Adam Kok II and Adam Kok III, who sold their lands to the Orange Free State in 1861 and then trekked east to found Griqualand East.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Philippolis. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/philippolis
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