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Gowa (Makassar language : ᨁᨚᨓ) is a regency in the province of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. It has an area of 1,883.33 km 2 and a population of 652,329 at the 2010 census, [ 2 ] increasing to 765,836 at the 2020 census; [ 3 ] the official estimate at mid-2023 was 799,999 (comprising 396,130 males and 403,869 females). [ 1 ]
The Makassar kingdom of Gowa emerged around 1300 CE as one of many agrarian chiefdoms in the Indonesian peninsula of South Sulawesi.From the sixteenth century onward, Gowa and its coastal ally Talloq [a] became the first powers to dominate most of the peninsula, following wide-ranging administrative and military reforms, including the creation of the first bureaucracy in South Sulawesi.
The total area is 28.09 km 2 or 2,809 Ha (1.49% of the total area of Gowa Regency) with an altitude of 25 metres above sea level. Most of the area is located in the lowlands with geographic coordinates at 5°12'5"S 119°27'15"E.
Sungguminasa is a town and Gowa Regency's administrative capital in South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. [1] It is home to the Balla' Lompoa Museum , a reconstruction of the Gowa royal palace. The building is constructed on stilts and made of ironwood .
Legislative elections were held across Indonesia's 38 provinces on 14 February 2024 to elect 2,372 members of the Provincial Regional House of Representatives (DPRD I) and 17,510 members of municipal legislatures (DPRD II).
Not much is known about the exact time when the kingdom was established nor about the first queen, and only during the reign of the 6th king, Tonatangka Kopi, have local sources noted about the division of the kingdom into two new kingdoms led by two Kopi's sons: Kingdom of Gowa led by Batara Gowa as its 7th king covering areas of Paccelekang ...
Malino (Makassar: ᨆᨒᨗᨊᨚ) is a small hill town in the Gowa district of South Sulawesi, 70 km from Makassar. [1] It is a popular getaway famous for its tropical flowers. Malino has mountains rich with limestone and pine. Various kinds of beautiful tropical plants grow and thrive in this fresh air city.
Sultan Hasanuddin was born in Makassar, Gowa Kingdom (on what is now part of South Sulawesi) under the name I Mallombasi Daeng Mattawang Muhammad Baqir Karaengta Bonto Mangape Sultan Hasanuddin, as the name of the giving of Qadi Islam Sultanate of Gowa namely Sayyid Syaikh Jalaludin bin Ahmad Bafaqih Al-Aidid, a mursyid of Baharunnur Baalwy in South Sulawesi as well as teacher tarekat of ...