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Cut Nyak Dhien or Tjoet Nja' Dhien (c. 1848 – 6 November 1908) [1] was a leader of the Acehnese guerrilla forces during the Aceh War. Following the death of her husband Teuku Umar, she led guerrilla actions against the Dutch for 25 years. She was posthumously awarded the title of National Hero of Indonesia on 2 May 1964 by the Indonesian ...
An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story. Essays have been sub-classified as formal and informal: formal essays are characterized by "serious purpose, dignity, logical organization, length ...
The National Principles (Malay: Rukun Negara; Jawi: روکون نݢارا ) is the Malaysian declaration of national philosophy instituted by royal proclamation on Merdeka Day, 1970, in reaction to the 13 May race riots, which occurred in 1969. [ 1 ] The riots proved at that time that Malaysian racial balance and stability was fragile.
Obverse: سلطان دمق فقرن الفـَـاتح (Sultan Demak Pangeran al-Fatih (Raden Patah)), Reverse: محمد صل وسلم عليه (the Shalawat); both written in the perso-arabic script. [ 1 ] The Demak Sultanate (کسلطانن دمق ) was a Javanese Muslim state located on Java 's north coast in Indonesia, at the site of the ...
Workshop on oral history in Otjinene, Namibia. History (derived from Ancient Greek ἱστορία (historía) 'inquiry; knowledge acquired by investigation') [ 1 ] is the systematic study and documentation of the human past. [ 2 ][ 3 ] History is an academic discipline which uses a narrative to describe, examine, question, and analyze past ...
An Indus Valley site has been found on the Oxus River at Shortugai in Afghanistan which is the northernmost site of the Indus Valley Civilisation, [ 29 ] in the Gomal River valley in northwestern Pakistan, [ 30 ] at Manda, Jammu on the Beas River near Jammu, [ 31 ] and at Alamgirpur on the Hindon River, only 28 km (17 mi) from Delhi. [ 32 ] The ...
The characteristic trade of silk through the Silk Road connected various regions from China, India, Central Asia, and the Middle East to Europe and Africa. The history of Asia can be seen as the collective history of several distinct peripheral coastal regions such as East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Middle East linked by the ...
The Ayutthaya Kingdom[ i ] or the Empire of Ayutthaya[ 19 ] was a Mon and later Siamese kingdom that existed in Southeast Asia from 1351 [ 15 ][ 20 ][ 21 ] to 1767, centered around the city of Ayutthaya, in Siam, or present-day Thailand. European travellers in the early 16th century called Ayutthaya one of the three great powers of Asia ...