Pretoria name confusion

Confusion confusion...!

Pretoria is the name of the City and the Municipality is called the Tshwane Metro.
Tshwane Metro is not a geographic place name.

One must be careful not to confuse the geographic area name with the name of the City.

Pretoria was first called Petoriusdorp – a little later, someone with knowledge of Latin suggested the name Pretorium. To the relief of many the name Pretoria was finally adopted.

The first suburb of Pretoria was Arcadia on the foot of Meintjieskop, on which the Union Buildings were built. Pretoria became a municipality in 1903.

After the creation of new municipal structures across South Africa in 2000, the name Tshwane was adopted for the Metropolitan Municipality that includes Pretoria and surrounding towns. 13 Municipalities were joined together to form the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality.

In this Tshwane Metro we have several suburbs, to name a few, Pretoria, Brooklyn and Menlo Park.

Many years ago other places such as Lyttleton, Irene, Silverton, Eersterus and Mamelodi were registered as place names. Some of these places were in the Pretoria Municipality and Lyttleton and Irene were in the Centurion Municipality.

Then all the municipalities were combined and we now have one municipality called the Tshwane Metro and in the Tshwane Metro we have a place or city called Pretoria.