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The first European settlement in South Africa was founded at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652, and thereafter administered as part of the Dutch Cape Colony.
The German-French duke of Orleans, Elizabeth Charlotte, was born in the Electoral Palatinate of the Holy Roman Empire.
The Spanish troops are in Dunkirk.