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Bethlehem is a town in the eastern Free State province of South Africa that is situated on the Liebenbergs river (also called Liebenbergs Vlei) along a fertile valley just north of the Rooiberg Mountains on the N5 road. It is a wheat growing area and named after the biblical Bethlehem (from "Beit Lechem", Hebrew for "house of bread"). The town lies at an altitude of and this contributes to its cool climate with frosty winters and mild summers. The average annual temperature is around Bethlehem is situated approximately north-east of Bloemfontein, east of Kroonstad and west of Harrismith. The town is strategically situated in the heart of the picturesque north-eastern Free State and originally developed as a service centre.〔http://www.dihlabeng.gov.za〕 Bethlehem is the seat of the Dihlabeng Local Municipality (this municipality is situated within the boundaries of the Thabo Mofutsanyana District Municipality in the Eastern Free State). The township associated with Bethlehem is called Bohlokong, named after the hloko/bohloko grass ''Diheteropogon filifolius''.〔Rodney Moffet, Grasses of the Eastern Free State: Their descriptions and uses, UNIQWA, Phuthaditjhaba, 1997〕 ==History== Bethlehem was founded in 1864 on the farm Pretorius Kloof by Daniël van Dyk. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bethlehem, Free State」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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