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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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The archaeology of Indonesia is the study of the archaeology of the archipelagic realm that today forms the nation of Indonesia, stretching from prehistory through almost two millennia of documented history. The ancient Indonesian archipelago was a geographical maritime bridge between the political and cultural centers of Ancient India and ...
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Summary of ancient migratory movements in Oceania. Oceania is a geographical region with disputed borders but generally encompasses Australia, New Guinea, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. [Note 1] The prehistoric peopling of Oceania took place through two major expansion movements.
Afrikaans; Anarâškielâ; العربية; Aragonés; Asturianu; Azərbaycanca; تۆرکجه; বাংলা; 閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú; Башҡортса ...