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    "Jan" van Riebeeck (21 April 1619 – 18 January 1677) was a Dutch navigator, ambassador and colonial administrator of the Dutch East India Company. Jan...
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    Maria van Riebeeck (née de la Queillerie; 28 October 1629 – 2 November 1664) was a French Huguenot who was the first wife of Jan van Riebeeck, the Dutch...
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  • Jan Steyn. 33°56′01″S 18°24′30″E / 33.933665°S 18.408371°E / -33.933665; 18.408371 (Hoërskool Jan van Riebeeck) The tradition of boarding at Jan van...
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    The statue of Jan van Riebeeck stands alongside the statue of Maria van Riebeeck on Heerengracht Street in Cape Town, South Africa. Both statues stand...
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  • Currency 1 Rand banknote 1965 Jan van Riebeeck". "My Currency Collection: South African Currency 2 Rand banknote 1965 Jan van Riebeeck". "My Currency Collection:...
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    1713. Abraham van Riebeeck was born on 18 October 1653 in the Dutch Cape Colony (present-day South Africa). His father was Jan van Riebeeck, commander of...
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    Commandment, and between 1691 and 1795, a Governorate of the VOC. Jan van Riebeeck established the colony as a re-supply and layover port for vessels...
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    Van Riebeeck's Hedge is a hedge planted in 1660 by Jan van Riebeeck to mark the border of the Dutch East India Company settlement in what is now Cape...
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    of a settlement founded on the shore below the mountains in 1652 by Jan van Riebeeck, for the Dutch East India Company. Some of the first farms in the Cape...
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    was purchased by the South African Navy in 1950 and renamed HMSAS Jan van Riebeeck. She was placed in reserve in 1953 and continuing shortages of manpower...
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