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1928 coffee plantation villa in Indies style, near Magelang, Central Java.. A landhuis (Dutch for "mansion, manor", plural landhuizen; Indonesian: rumah kongsi; Papiamento: kas di shon or kas grandi) is a Dutch colonial country house, often the administrative heart of a particuliere land or private domain in the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia.
He introduced ways to optimize the land into farmlands by channeling water from the Ciliwung. In the estate of Tandjong West, a dam was established to form the Situ Babakan. From there, waters irrigate the land north of it, including Lenteng Agung and Tanjung Barat. The land became arable, and horticultural produce flourished in the area. [3]
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Lord of the manor, the owner of an agreed area of land (or "manor") under manorialism; Manor house, the main residence of the lord of the manor; Estate (land), the land (and buildings) that belong to large house, synonymous with the modern understanding of a manor. Manor (in Colonial America), a form of tenure restricted to certain Proprietary ...
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The government's programme of land reacquisition began in 1912, but halted during the Great Depression (1929-1939). [3] In 1935, the government founded NV Javasche Particuliere Landerijen Maatschappij ['Java Private Domains Company'], which was tasked with the acquisition of the particuliere landerijen on the open market.
These homes, known as solares (paços, when the manor was a certain stature or size; quintas, when the manor included a sum of land), were found particularly in the northern, usually richer, Portugal, in the Beira, Minho, and Trás-os-Montes provinces. Many have been converted into a type of hotel called pousada.