Search results for "Sumatra" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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 (4,281 words) - 22:29, 15 May 2024
- 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
