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The Kalanga or BaKalanga are a southern Bantu ethnic group mainly inhabiting Matebeleland in Zimbabwe, northern Botswana, and parts of the Limpopo Province in South Africa.. The BaKalanga of Botswana are the second largest ethnic group in the country, and their Bakalanga language being the second most spoken in the country (most prevalent in the North).The TjiKalanga language of Zimbabwe is ...
Kalingga (Javanese: Karajan Kalingga; Chinese: 訶陵; pinyin: Hēlíng; Middle Chinese: [hɑ.lɨŋ]) or She-po or She-bo (Chinese: 闍婆; pinyin: Shépó; Middle Chinese: [d͡ʑia.buɑ]) in Chinese sources, [1] or Ho-ling in Arabic scriptures of Umayyad Caliphate era; [2] was a 6th-century Indianized kingdom [broken anchor] on the north coast of Central Java, Indonesia.
The village has primary school, Nswazwi Primary, campsite, a lodge, a few guest houses, post office, a kgotla and a secondary school called Madawu Community Junior School, [2] a clinic, a brigade development trust called, Nswazwi brigade being the largest in Botswana. [3]
The white settlers in zhawunda erroneously called zhawunda, Gwanda. Zhawundamano asimano linodla was the full name of the area. A group of Kalangas clans of Balilima, Nyubi, Mwenye of Mberengwa, were traveling together and passed at a place where they found a skull of an elephant and they said, Nsholowezhou, meaning the skull of an elephant.
The Javanese (/ dʒ ɑː v ə ˈ n iː z /, jah-və-NEEZ, [17] / dʒ æ v-/ jav-, /-ˈ n iː s /- NEESS; [18] Javanese: ꦮꦺꦴꦁꦗꦮ, romanized: Wong Jawa (in the ngoko register), ꦠꦶꦪꦁꦗꦮꦶ, Tiyang Jawi (in the krama register); [19] Indonesian: Orang Jawa) are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the central and eastern part of the Indonesian island of Java.
Java lies between Sumatra to the west and Bali to the east. Borneo lies to the north, and Christmas Island is to the south. It is the world's 13th largest island. Java is surrounded by the Java Sea to the north, the Sunda Strait to the west, the Indian Ocean to the south and Bali Strait [19] and Madura Strait in the east. [20]
In the west of Java lies the Halimun Reserve, today integrated into the Mount Halimun Salak National Park. A tiger was killed there in 1984, and pugmarks found in 1989 were the size of a tiger's. However, an expedition of six biologists conducted in 1990 did not yield any definite, direct evidence for the presence of a tiger. [14]
Javanese culture is centered in the provinces of Central Java, Yogyakarta and East Java in Indonesia. Due to various migrations, it can also be found in other parts of the world, such as Suriname (where 15% of the population are of Javanese descent), the broader Indonesian archipelago region, [ 1 ] Cape Malay , [ 2 ] Malaysia , Singapore ...