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The history of Indonesia has been shaped by its geographic position, natural resources, a series of human migrations and contacts, wars and conquests, as well as by trade, economics and politics. Indonesia is an archipelagic country of 17,000 to 18,000 islands stretching along the equator in Southeast Asia and Oceania .
A few dozen free settlers settled on the west coast in the following years. [87] New Caledonia became a penal colony , and from the 1860s until the end of the transportations in 1897, about 22,000 criminals and political prisoners were sent to New Caledonia, among them many Communards , including Henri de Rochefort and Louise Michel . [ 88 ]
Short title: A manual of ancient history, from the earliest times to the fall of the Western empire, comprising the history of Chaldæa, Assyria, Media, Babylonia ...
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Afrikaans; Anarâškielâ; العربية; Aragonés; Asturianu; Azərbaycanca; تۆرکجه; বাংলা; 閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú; Башҡортса ...
In ancient times, the many islands of Oceania maintained contact with one another through sailing networks. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] During the colonial era, this intermigration reduced, as colonisers needed Oceanian populations for labour purposes. [ 3 ]
These migrations were accompanied by a set of domesticated, semi-domesticated, and commensal plants and animals transported via outrigger ships and catamarans that enabled early Austronesians to thrive in the islands of Maritime Southeast Asia (also known as 'Island Southeast Asia'. e.g.: Philippines, Indonesia), Near Oceania , Remote Oceania ...
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