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History of the city of Cape Town, South Africa
The area known today as Cape Town has no written history before it was first mentioned by Portuguese explorer Bartholomeu Dias in 1488. The German anthropologist Theophilus Hahn recorded that the original name of the area was '||Hui ! Gais' – a toponym in the indigenous Khoi language meaning "where clouds gather." Wikipedia