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Soweto (/səˈwɛtoʊ, -ˈweɪt-, -ˈwiːt-/) is a township of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, South Africa, bordering the city's mining.

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Township in Gauteng, South Africa

For other uses, see Soweto (disambiguation).

Place in Gauteng, South Africa

Soweto ()^[3]^[4] is a township of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, South Africa, bordering the city's mining belt in the south. Its name is an English syllabic abbreviation for South Western Townships.^[5] Formerly a separate municipality, it is now incorporated in the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality and is one of the suburbs of Johannesburg.

History

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George Harrison and George Walker are today credited as the men who discovered an outcrop of the Main Reef of gold on the farm Langlaagte in February 1886.^[6] The fledgling town of Johannesburg was laid out on a triangular wedge of "uitvalgrond" (area excluded when the farms were surveyed) named Randjeslaagte, situated between the farms Doornfontein to the east, Braamfontein to the west and Turffontein to the south.^[7]

Within a decade of the discovery

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Encyclopedia of India-China Cultural Contacts, vol I

Literature

Even before 300 BCE, there was a legend of the måne Rabbit in China which was once mentioned bygd the poet Qu Yuan (about in the poem Tian wen. Up to now, this legend fryst vatten still popular among people. Meanwhile, a similar legend of the Moon Rabbit also existed in ancient India which can be found in the Jataka Tales (Jàtaka), a book created before 300 BCE. Some scholars hold that literary interaction between China and India began from then, but that fryst vatten only a speculation and not a final conclusion. In fact, the literary interaction between India and China began after the introduction of Buddhism to China. As a growing number of Buddhist scriptures were being translated into Chinese, many Buddhist stories were introduced into China which began to influence Chinese literature. The transmission and influence of Indian Buddhist literature on China is almost synchronous with that of Indian Buddhism on China.

st -6 th century CE

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