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Pattimura was born Thomas Matulessy on 8 June 1783 in Saparua, Maluku; the name Pattimura was his pseudonym. [1] [2] His parents were Frans Matulessia and Fransina Tilahoi, and he had a little brother named Yohanis. [3]
Bali, Indonesia: The World Peace Gong Park can be found on the island of Bali, Indonesia Desa Budayal Kertalangu Bali. It was the venue for the Miss World Contestants commitment to World Peace, in September 2013, Geneva, Switzerland; New Delhi, India [2] Penglai, Shandong, China; Vientiane, Laos; Paipa (Colombia) Ambon (Indonesia) [3] Maputo ...
The Maluku sectarian conflict (Indonesian: Konflik Sektarian Kepulauan Maluku) was a period of ethno-political conflict along religious lines that occurred in the Maluku Islands in Indonesia, with particularly serious disturbances on the islands of Ambon and Halmahera.
In the summer of 1950, southern parts of the Maluku Islands, with majority Christian populations, were rebel territory with the proclamation of the so-called Republic of South Maluku (RMS), and its army was mainly composed of demobilized ex-Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (KNIL) soldiers and other South Moluccan men who remained loyal to the Dutch crown, even during the days of the United ...
During colonial rule, the fort of Kota Laha was taken over by the Dutch from the Portuguese and changed its name to Fort Victoria.Previously, the Portuguese built and named the fort Nossa Senhora de Anunciada in 1575 and was finished in 1580 by a Portuguese governor Gaspar de Mello, the fort was captured by the Dutch in 1605 and later renamed it as Victoria, which means victory.
Ambon was a governorate of the Dutch East India Company, consisting of Ambon Island and ten neighbouring islands. [1] Steven van der Hagen captured Fort Victoria on 22 February 1605 from the Portuguese in the name of the Dutch East India Company. Until 1619, Ambon served as the capital of the Dutch possessions in East Asia.
A group of men after the institute of the M.P. in a church in Ambon, pre-1943. Ambon belonged to the so-called colonial ethnic group. [ 10 ] They were formed in the 16th to 18th century as a result of the mixing of the indigenous population of Ambon Island and West Seram Regency , the human trade of the Hitu people, and with the immigrants from ...
Ambonese Malay or simply Ambonese is a Malay-based creole language spoken on Ambon Island in the Maluku Islands of Eastern Indonesia.It was first brought by traders from Western Indonesia, then developed when the Dutch Empire colonised the Maluku Islands and was used as a tool by missionaries in Eastern Indonesia.