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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 ...
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.
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.
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.
This is a list of mosques in Indonesia. The Indonesian term Masjid Agung is translated as "Great Mosque", while Masjid Raya is translated as "Grand Mosque." Masjid Keramat is translated as "Holy Mosque." Masjid Jami is translated as Jami Mosque which refers to the congregational mosque where the weekly Friday prayer takes place. These lists ...
Permesta was a rebel movement in Indonesia that was declared on 2 March 1957 by civil and military leaders in East Indonesia.Initially the center of the movement was in Makassar, which at that time was the capital of the province of Sulawesi.
The Sultanate of Bima (Malay: كسلطانن بيم , romanized: Kesultanan Bima), officially known as The Settlements and Lands of Mbojo (Bima: Rasa ro Dana Mbojo), [1] [2] alternatively the Kingdom of Bima (Malay: کرجاءن بيم , romanized: Kerajaan Bima) was a Muslim state in the eastern part of Sumbawa in Indonesia, at the site of the present-day regency of Bima. [3]
The Kingdom of Luwu (also Luwuq or Wareq) was a polity located in the northern part of the modern-day South Sulawesi province of Indonesia, on the island of Sulawesi. It is considered one of the earliest known Buginese kingdoms in Sulawesi, founded between the 10th and 14th century. However, recent archaeological research has challenged this ...