Philipstown
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    Philipstown is a town in the eastern Karoo region of South Africa. Town 56 km north-east of De Aar. It was established in May 1863 on the farm Rietfontein and became a municipality in August 1876. Named after Sir Philip Edmond Wodehouse, Governor of the Cape Colony from 1861 to 1870.
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