Beitbridge

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  1. 1
    A border town in the province of Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe.

    "The Rhodesia Railways, however, do maintain a passenger and goods road motor service between Gwanda and Beit Bridge."

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"Beitbridge, on the southern Limpopo River border with South Africa, received some 93 millimetres of rain, the most it has gotten in 46 years, meteorologists said."

Etymology

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.

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