Bethany, Free State
Place in Free State, South Africa
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Bethany is a former station of the Berlin Missionary Society (BMW) established in 1834 by Gebel and Kraul to serve the Korana. Hebrew for 'house of misery'. The railway station was renamed Wurasoord in 1919, after Carl Wuras, a BMS missionary who took charge of it then.[1]
CountrySouth Africa
Bethany | |
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  Bethany  Bethany | |
| Coordinates: 29.598°S 25.956°E | |
| Country | South Africa |
| Province | Free State |
| District | Xhariep |
| Municipality | Kopanong |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipality |
| • Mayor | Xolile Mathwa (ANC) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |