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  1. Industrial city (footwear, furniture,
  2. aluminium, rubber, brewing), and capital,
  3. from 1842, of Natal, South Africa; population
  4. (1980) 179,000. Founded 1838 by Boer trekkers
  5. from the Cape, it was named after their
  6. leaders, Piet Retief and Gert Maritz, killed
  7. by the Zulus.
  8.