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Orange River   /ˈɔrəndʒ rˈɪvər/   Listen
Orange River

noun
1.
A river in South Africa that flows generally westward to the Atlantic Ocean.  Synonym: Orange.






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"Orange River" Quotes from Famous Books



... regions of South Africa. A few remain in the more inaccessible parts of the Drakensberg range about the sources of the Vaal. Only in one or two districts are they found in large numbers, chiefly in Great Bushman Land towards the Orange river. A regularly planned and wholesale destruction of the Bushmen on the borders of Cape Colony in the earlier years of European occupation reduced their numbers to a great extent; but this cruel hunting of the Bushmen has ceased. In retaliation the Bushmen were long the ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 - "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" • Various



Words linked to "Orange River" :   Republic of South Africa, South Africa, river



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