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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.
The colonial architecture of Indonesia refers to the buildings that were created across Indonesia during the Dutch colonial period, during that time, this region was known as the Dutch East Indies. These types of colonial era structures are more prevalent in Java and Sumatra, as those islands were considered more economically significant during ...
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A traditional Batak Toba house in North Sumatra. With few exceptions, the peoples of the Indonesian archipelago share a common Austronesian ancestry (originating in Taiwan, c. 6,000 years ago [4]) or Sundaland, a sunken area in Southeast Asia, and the traditional homes of Indonesia share a number of characteristics, such as timber construction and varied and elaborate roof structures. [4]
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.
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.