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The geology of the Maluku Islands shares much similar history, characteristics, and processes with the neighbouring Nusa Tenggara region. There is a long history of geological study of these regions since Indonesian colonial times ; however, the geological formation and progression are not fully understood, and theories of the island's ...
Maluku is a province of Indonesia.It comprises the central and southern regions of the Maluku Islands.The largest city and capital of Maluku province is Ambon on the small Ambon Island.
Location of the Banda Islands in the center of the Maluku Islands Map of the Banda Islands. The Banda Islands (Indonesian: Kepulauan Banda) are a volcanic group of ten small volcanic islands in the Banda Sea, about 140 km (87 mi) south of Seram Island and about 2,000 km (1,243 mi) east of Java, and constitute an administrative district (kecamatan) within the Central Maluku Regency in the ...
Maluku Islands, an archipelago that is part of Indonesia . List of the Maluku Islands; Maluku (province), a province of Indonesia comprising the central and southern parts of the archipelago
The Portuguese were driven out by the Dutch in 1605. Except for brief periods of British rule, the island remained under Dutch control until Indonesia's independence in 1945. Coat of arms of Ambon during colonial era, granted in 1930. During the Dutch period, Ambon was the seat of the Dutch resident and military commander of the Maluku Islands.
The Kai Islands (also Kei Islands) of Indonesia are a group of islands in the southeastern part of the Maluku Islands, located in the province of Maluku. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Moluccas have been known as the Spice Islands due to regionally specific plants such as nutmeg , mace , and cloves that originally intrigued the European nations of the 16th ...
Moluccans are the Austronesian-speaking and Papuan-speaking ethnic groups indigenous to the Maluku Islands (also called the Moluccas), Eastern Indonesia. The region was historically known as the Spice Islands, [4] and today consists of two Indonesian provinces of Maluku and North Maluku. As such, "Moluccans" is used as a blanket term for the ...
This is a list of rulers of Maluku from proto-historical times until the present. The four sultanates of Ternate , Tidore , Jailolo and Bacan were considered descendants of a legendary figure called Jafar Sadik and formed a ritual quadripartition.