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  2. Makassar - Wikipedia

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    The Makassar kings maintained a policy of free trade, insisting on the right of any visitor to do business in the city, and rejecting the attempts of the Dutch to establish a monopoly. [12] Makassar depended mainly on the Muslim Malay and Catholic Portuguese sailors communities as its two crucial economic assets. However the English East India ...

  3. Makassar metropolitan area - Wikipedia

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    In Makassar language, the word Mamminasata means "expression of ideals, feelings, or hopes that are coveted for all of us". The national government regards the Makassar Metropolitan Area as including Makassar, Maros Regency, Gowa Regency, Takalar Regency, and Pangkajene Islands Regency. Pankajene Island is now included in the Metropolitan Area.

  4. Fort Rotterdam - Wikipedia

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    Fort Rotterdam is a 17th-century fort in Makassar on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia.It is a Dutch fort that was built on top of an existing fort of the Gowa Kingdom.The first fort on the site was constructed by the a local sultan around 1634, to counter Dutch encroachments.

  5. Macassar - Wikipedia

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    Makassar, a city in Indonesia; Makassar Strait, a strait in Indonesia; Makassar people, ethnic group inhabiting the southern part of the South Peninsula, in Sulawesi; Makassarese language, also known as Makassar - one of a group of languages known as Makassaric languages. Makasar script, historical letters used to write Makassarese language

  6. Colonial architecture of Makassar - Wikipedia

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    City Hall, early 20th century Fort Rotterdam in 2010 Market Street (De Passarstraat) in the early 20th century. Colonial era architecture of Makassar in South Sulawesi, Indonesia includes Fort Rotterdam and other Dutch buildings constructed when the area was part for the Dutch East Indies.

  7. Indonesia–Pakistan relations - Wikipedia

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    Pakistan's relationship with Indonesia greatly developed under Pakistani President Ayub Khan.During the Second Indo−Pakistani War, Indonesia supported Pakistan and offered to militarily intervene in the conflict by attacking and seizing the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India to open up a second front and relieve pressure on Pakistan in Kashmir and Pakistani Punjab, which India tried to ...

  8. Makassar people - Wikipedia

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    The native Makassar, Macassar, Makassarese, Makassan or Macassan (in Australian English) are one of the indigenous Sulawesi people, native to the southern Celebic peninsular regions (concentrated around the Makassar area) in Indonesia. The Makassar people are rich in culture and they are acknowledged for their traditional culinary and maritime ...

  9. A Short History of Pakistan - Wikipedia

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    A Short History of Pakistan is an edited book published by University of Karachi Press and comprises four volumes. The book is edited by Prof Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi and provides a comprehensive account of the history of the Pakistan region and its people from the prehistory leading to the creation of Pakistan and East Pakistan which then became Bangladesh.