Haarlem is a settlement in

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in the

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province of

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. Village 16 km east of Avontuur and 29 km south-east of Uniondale, in the

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. Originally laid out in 1856, it was taken over by the

Berlin Missionary Society The Berlin Missionary Society (BMS) (German: ''Berliner Missionsgesellschaft'' (BMG)) was a Berlin-based German Protestant (Lutheran) Christianity, Christian missionary society, active from 1824 to 1972 in South Africa, East Africa and China. In 197 ...

in 1860. The mission station was named Anhalt-Schmidt, but the village had already been named Haarlem and bears that name today, presumably after the city of

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19 km west of

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in the Netherlands.

References

Populated places in the George Local Municipality Populated places established in 1856 {{WesternCape-geo-stub