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Pretoria

Pretoria, a Mennonite village name of the Orenburg and Terek settlements, Russia, given to the newly established villages because of sympathy for the Boers of South Africa during their independence struggle (see Villages).

Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, and Waterloo, Ontario, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 216. All rights reserved. For information on ordering the encyclopedia visit the Herald Press website.

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MLA style: Krahn, Cornelius. "Pretoria." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1959. Web. 20 May 2013. http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/pretoria.

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