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Orange, city, east-central New South Wales, Australia. It is located near the slopes of Mount Canobolas, an extinct volcano. In 1828 the area was named by Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, the surveyor general of New South Wales, in memory of the prince of Orange (later William II), with whom he served in the Peninsular War, and the village of Orange was proclaimed in 1846. It grew after the announcement in 1851 of payable gold deposits at nearby Ophir, but farming eventually replaced mining. It was proclaimed a town in 1885 and a city in 1946. From 1972 to 1983 it ...(100 of 171 words)

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