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Bali (English: / ˈ b ɑː l i /; Balinese: ᬩᬮᬶ) is a province of Indonesia and the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands.East of Java and west of Lombok, the province includes the island of Bali and a few smaller offshore islands, notably Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan, and Nusa Ceningan to the southeast.
The Dutch conquest of Southern Bali in 1906 was a Dutch military intervention in Bali as part of the Dutch colonial conquest of the Indonesian islands, killing an estimated 1,000 people. It was part of the final takeover of the Netherlands East-Indies and the fifth Dutch military intervention in Bali.
The History of Bali covers a period from the Paleolithic to the present, and is characterized by migrations of people and cultures from other parts of Asia. In the 16th century, the history of Bali started to be marked by Western influence with the arrival of Europeans, to become, after a long and difficult colonial period under the Dutch, an example of the preservation of traditional cultures ...
On 1 May 1945, about 1,000 residents of Demmin, Germany committed mass suicide in the advent of the Red Army's capture of the town. [14] A Balinese mass ritual suicide is called a puputan. Major puputan occurred in 1906–1908 when Balinese kingdoms faced overwhelming Dutch colonial forces.
In local newspapers, an obituary may be published for any local resident upon death. A necrology is a register or list of records of the deaths of people related to a particular organization, group or field, which may only contain the sparsest details, or small obituaries. Historical necrologies can be important sources of information.
These included a fight-to-the-death that became known as Puputan Bayu or Blambangan-Oorlog (Blambangan War), in 1771–1773. [2] The Dutch sent Muslim and Christian missionaries to tame the Osing people's fighting spirit. Only then Banyuwangi was captured; a long and ambitious dream toward further occupation on Bali was launched by the Dutch.
The Natchez people are attempting to revive this language. [177] 1952-1956: Aasáx: Afroasiatic: Tanzania [178] after 1954: Tây Bồi: French-based Pidgin: Vietnam [179] [180] 1954: Central Kalapuya: Kalapuyan: Oregon, United States: with the death of John B. Hudson [160] 1954: Ifo: Austronesian: Erromanga Island, Vanuatu: with the death of ...
A few years after Gajah Mada's death, the Majapahit navy captured Palembang, putting an end to the Sriwijaya kingdom. Although the Majapahit rulers extended their power over other islands and destroyed neighbouring kingdoms, their focus seems to have been on controlling and gaining a larger share of the commercial trade that passed through the ...