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Beitbridge en · PROPN

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.

Meanings

  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. 1940 November, O. S. M. Raw, “The Rhodesia Railways—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 592:

wikipedia: Alfred Beit