Beitbridge
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Beit + bridge, being named after the original bridge over the Limpopo River completed in 1929, which was named after Alfred Beit. The spelling Beit Bridge was being used in 1940.
Proper noun[edit]
Beitbridge
- A border town in the province of Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe.
- 1940 November, O. S. M. Raw, “The Rhodesia Railways—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 592:
- The Rhodesia Railways, however, do maintain a passenger and goods road motor service between Gwanda and Beit Bridge.
Further reading[edit]
Alfred Beit Road Bridge on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
