Search results for "Sumatra" - New World Encyclopedia
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- (Kreger 2005a). However, Dubois' search on Sumatra from 1887 to 1890 ended in failure. In October of 1891, laborers working for Dubois—Stephen ...9 KB (1,362 words) - 01:03, 9 February 2023
- Marco Polo referred to neighboring Sumatra as "little Java" ... and Ptolemy referred to Sumatra as Jaba-diu. Asiatick researches, or ...34 KB (5,087 words) - 01:03, 9 February 2023
- West Asia and Southeast Asia. Gold from Sumatra reached as far west as Rome. ... The Jawa Dwipa Hindu kingdom in Java and Sumatra existed around 200 ...38 KB (5,260 words) - 15:15, 27 April 2023
- helps it survive in the high altitudes of Sumatra and Borneo but it allows ... years. Now, they are mainly found only in Sumatra and Borneo. ...21 KB (3,171 words) - 20:50, 16 April 2023
- three hundred kilometers to Padang, Sumatra. They intended to keep him ... Subsequently, indigenous forces across both Sumatra and Java aided ...25 KB (3,644 words) - 21:41, 26 February 2023
- the Dutch Army Medical Service and was sent to Sumatra, a part of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) as an army physician. He took his wife and ...11 KB (1,759 words) - 04:18, 23 March 2024
- built a small craft and sailed it to Acheen in Sumatra. After further adventures Dampier returned to England in 1691 via the Cape of Good Hope, penniless ...11 KB (1,611 words) - 15:57, 7 May 2023
- Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia (Java, Sumatra, Bali, Sulawesi), Peninsular ... |South Chinese Sea (Malaysia, Gulf of Thailand), Indian Ocean (Sumatra ...24 KB (3,370 words) - 21:57, 24 December 2021
- on the western coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra where foreign traders would call to buy camphor. In the Indian language Sanskrit, the word ...11 KB (1,519 words) - 18:58, 25 November 2023
- north to southern China, including the islands of Sumatra, Borneo and Java. Gibbons are masters of their primary mode of locomotion, brachiation ...12 KB (1,751 words) - 23:18, 10 December 2022
- traveled directly to the island of Java and Sumatra in the Malay Archipelago where a huge temple complex at Borobudur was built. The empire of Srivijaya ...27 KB (4,057 words) - 22:19, 21 January 2024
- from the first century C.E. The islands of Sumatra and Java in western Indonesia ... remains are can be found in Java and Sumatra. The most magnificence is ...37 KB (5,547 words) - 18:34, 22 November 2023
- | The Batu Islands, Sumatra and the Lingga Islands |- |105° | style="background:#b0e0e6;" | Indian Ocean | style="background: ...14 KB (2,035 words) - 07:25, 6 September 2023
- is found only on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The Sumatran tiger is the ... were discovered in deposits from China, Sumatra, and Java. For example, ...34 KB (5,273 words) - 03:13, 4 November 2022
- of Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia (Sumatra, western Java, and Kalimantan), Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, ...14 KB (1,971 words) - 07:42, 14 January 2023
- : 230–259. The explosion was heard on Sumatra island (more than 2,000 km ... guns was heard on April 10th and 11th on Sumatra island (more than 2,600 km ...27 KB (3,837 words) - 17:13, 6 December 2023
- and east of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. East Malaysia is located ... The Strait of Malacca, lying between Sumatra and Peninsular Malaysia ...33 KB (4,723 words) - 14:30, 29 March 2024
- miles (1,000 km) south-west of Java and Sumatra. The nearest landmass is ... Bima, Celebes, Nmadura, Sumbawa, Timor, Sumatra, Pasir-Kutai, Malacca, Penang ...29 KB (4,147 words) - 22:20, 7 January 2024
- and Southern Africa, the Indian subcontinent, Sumatra, and Japan. The European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) has been introduced to many locations ...28 KB (4,391 words) - 16:17, 7 December 2022
- to the traditional practices in Kalimantan, Sumatra, Sulawesi, and other places in Indonesia, where people have started to identify and accept their ...15 KB (2,058 words) - 02:15, 23 December 2022
- Toluca Lake. They also live in Java, Borneo, Sumatra, Malaysia, Cambodia, Thailand, and Indonesia. Since this otter is so rare, it is unknown what they ...15 KB (2,407 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- you were sent to the south of England, thence to Sumatra and back, but when you were done, you really knew everything about your subject. Many a student ...17 KB (2,459 words) - 23:52, 12 February 2024
- of Kent, Ireland, and Wales, and in 1745 to Sumatra. The word continent was used in translating Greek and Latin writings about the three "parts ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 19:07, 19 May 2020
- culture. On Java, the western part of Sumatra and some smaller islands, traditionalists continued to perform the old stories for some time, but ...19 KB (2,886 words) - 23:20, 3 May 2023
- Malaysia, Taiwan, Japan (Okinawa), and Indonesia (Sumatra and Borneo). |- |Porthidium |Cope, 1871 |align="center"|7 |align="center ...19 KB (2,781 words) - 19:53, 7 May 2020
- Jepara in Java, and Aceh, Pariaman and Jambi in (Sumatra) which threatened Dutch ambitions for a monopoly on East Indies trade. Diplomatic agreements ...19 KB (2,812 words) - 17:23, 12 February 2024
- Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese: Fernão de Magalhães, IPA pronunciation: / fɨɾ'nɐ̃ũ dɨ mɐɣɐ'ʎɐ̃ĩʃ /; Fernando ...20 KB (3,084 words) - 17:19, 26 March 2024
- empires, but collapsed as Islam expanded through Sumatra and into Java in the sixteenth century. There was a short period of cultural and artistic development ...19 KB (2,723 words) - 05:53, 26 August 2023
- ship. The Worcester sailed to Benkulen in Sumatra in February 1793. In addition to a genuine interest in exploration, McLynn suggests that such ...19 KB (3,147 words) - 18:22, 10 November 2022
- its first pipeline and refinery in Sumatra in 1892, processing petroleum ... had contracted for petroleum supplies in Sumatra, Texas, Russia, Romania ...44 KB (6,285 words) - 21:48, 16 April 2023
- Channel. On the facing coasts of Java and Sumatra the sea flood went many ... * Iwan, W.D., ed. 2006. Summary report of the Great Sumatra Earthquakes ...44 KB (6,684 words) - 18:38, 2 May 2023
- Minangkabau. This group lives in West Sumatra and numbers about four million. Sanday argued that this society is a modern matriarchy defined ...26 KB (3,881 words) - 09:18, 10 March 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law [[Image:Pirate_Flag_of_Rack_Rackham.svg|thumb|250px|right|The flag of eighteenth-century pirate ...24 KB (3,715 words) - 06:18, 24 November 2022
- acted as arbitrators in Ceylon and Sumatra. Over 60 embassies visited China within a short space of time, many bearing gifts of strange animals ...27 KB (4,177 words) - 16:58, 4 June 2023
- * Lake Toba on the island of Sumatra is located in what is probably the largest resurgent caldera on Earth. * The largest lake located completely ...31 KB (4,835 words) - 05:36, 4 March 2023
- Park, Lake Taupo in New Zealand and Lake Toba in Sumatra, Indonesia. Supervolcanoes are hard to identify centuries later, given the enormous areas ...32 KB (4,841 words) - 20:59, 3 May 2023
- , Borneol camphor (Dryobalanops aromatica), Sumatra [[Benzoin resin|Benzoin]] (Styrax benzoin), Omani Frankincense (Boswellia sacra), Guggul ...32 KB (4,937 words) - 12:45, 4 March 2024
- hornbill birds of Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra, and Java. ==Traditional uses== A western person who observed the many uses made of bamboo more than ...29 KB (4,488 words) - 04:24, 11 January 2023
- part of the Mentawai islands off the west coast of Sumatra. Uma longhouses are rectangular with a verandah at each end. They can be as much as ...35 KB (5,411 words) - 07:52, 9 March 2023
- Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island nation and the smallest country in Southeast Asia. It is located on the southern ...31 KB (4,282 words) - 00:11, 29 December 2023
- Uyung area of the Minangakabau highlands of Sumatra. By the fourteenth century, Po-ni also fell under the influence of the Javanese Majapahit ...30 KB (4,444 words) - 04:42, 22 November 2023
- particularly in Indonesia (Java, Sumatra and Borneo), Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, Vietnam and Laos. ==Structure of Valmiki Ramayana== ...37 KB (6,200 words) - 00:33, 8 December 2022
- The camps varied in size from four people held at Pangkalpinang in Sumatra to the 14,000 held in Tjihapit in Java. While some were segregated ...40 KB (5,981 words) - 02:41, 8 January 2024
- China, throughout mainland Southeast Asia, and in Sumatra, Java, Bali, and Irian Jaya. A starburst pattern in the center of the tympanum, surrounded ...37 KB (5,882 words) - 20:18, 3 May 2023
- from their Chinese forebears. Chinese living in Sumatra, whose line of descent is a relatively short 4 or 5 generations, did not give up their dialects ...45 KB (6,097 words) - 10:53, 11 March 2023
- A fragmentary Tamil inscription found in Sumatra cites the name of a merchant guild Nanadesa Tisaiyayirattu Ainnutruvar (literally, "the ...44 KB (6,505 words) - 17:15, 10 December 2023
- of Ontario), the Dutch East Indies (1885, in Sumatra), Iran (1908, in Masjed Soleiman), Peru, Venezuela, and Mexico, and were being developed at ...42 KB (6,126 words) - 14:48, 28 March 2023
- frogs (Rhacophoridae : Rhacophorus) from Sumatra and Java. Herpetological Monographs 16: 46–92. * Hogan, D., and M. Hogan. 2004. [http://magma ...41 KB (6,365 words) - 07:07, 15 April 2024
- the South Asian kingdom of Sri Vijaya in Sumatra and continued as far as Thailand and Burma. Chola power declined in the twelfth and thirteenth ...56 KB (8,191 words) - 16:28, 13 January 2024
- The Indonesian islands of Bali, Java, Sulawesi, Sumatra, and Borneo have significant native Hindu populations. Bali's major religion is ...61 KB (9,460 words) - 19:05, 17 March 2022
- African) cousins and exists only on the island of Sumatra, usually in forested regions and partially wooded habitats. In 2003, a further subspecies ...64 KB (9,737 words) - 10:18, 21 January 2023
- The lion (Panthera leo) is an Old World mammal of the Felidae family and one of the four species of "big cats" (subfamily Pantherinae ...86 KB (13,304 words) - 17:35, 12 May 2023
