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kopje

[ UK /kˈɒpi/ ]
NOUN
  1. a small hill rising up from the African veld

How To Use kopje In A Sentence

  • We shall contest every river, every crossroads, every village, every town, and every kopje. Rainbow’s End
  • At the Manharen, a peculiar kind of kopje, we halted, but had to retreat further towards evening. On Commando
  • Supporters of the plans said that, after decades of stagnation, Skopje would at last get the regeneration it deserves, its heroes commemorated in marble and bronze.
  • Skopje argues that using a provisional reference to denote a sovereign state or, even worse, the acronym FYROM or fYROM is disrespectful American Chronicle
  • The Boers subsequently succeeded in removing the piece during the night, although its descent from the kopje was a task of some serious labour and took two hours. History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government
  • Some mornings we stopped on a kopje and made a small fire and Dad fried up eggs and steak in an old pan and we washed them down with flask coffee. Rainbow’s End
  • But under Article 11 of the UN Interim Agreement signed between them in 1995, Athens has committed not to object to Skopje's application to join any "international, multilateral and regional organisations and institutions" of which Greece is part, provided that it applies under the provisional name foreseen in the deal - Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia EUobserver.com - Headline News
  • The first, which we may call the Fort, consists of a line of wall, in parts double, defending the more accessible parts of the eastern and south-eastern end of the hill or kopje, which is about 500 feet high, and breaks down on its southern side in a nearly vertical sheet of granite. Impressions of South Africa
  • A plane table survey, using a mekometer to measure one's base, is pretty easily made to get position of kopjes, trenches, well-defined gun emplacements and their ranges, roughly, but it wants a certain amount of time to do it. With the Naval Brigade in Natal (1899-1900) Journal of Active Service
  • It has been 28 days since His Beatitude the Archbishop of Ohrid and Metropolitan of Skopje Jovan is imprisoned in the prison Idrizovo, near Skopje.
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