moluccas in English

noun

Maluku Islands

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1. Ambon definition: an island in Indonesia , in the Moluccas

2. JAKARTA, Indonesia, April 26 --Amboinese authorities declared the South Moluccas independent today

3. Troides hypolitus, the Rippon's birdwing, is a birdwing butterfly endemic to the Moluccas and Sulawesi.

4. Ambonese muslim jihadists, islamic identity, and the history of christian–muslim rivalry in the moluccas, eastern indonesia - volume 12 issue 1 - sumanto al qurtuby

5. An island of eastern Indonesia in the northern Moluccas west of northeast Celebes. Settled by the Portuguese (1521-15, it was subjugated by the Dutch in 16

6. 8 The transmigration program has exported Muslims to Bali, Borneo, the Celebes, the Moluccas, and Papua, making Indonesia the most populous Muslim-majority nation in the world.

7. Gazetteer Western Pacific: Moluccas and Philippines to Timor, north to the Mariana Islands, south to Rowley Shoals and New Caledonia; throughout Micronesia. Range extends to Pitcairn (Ref. 97.

8. First Circumnavigation of the globe The first Circumnavigation of the globe was led by Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan, who was charged with finding a Spanish route to the Moluccas

9. The Galleon trade brought silver from New Spain, which was used to purchase Asian goods such as silk from China, spices from the Moluccas, lacquerware from Japan and Philippine cotton textiles.

10. Definition of Ambon 1 island of eastern Indonesia in the Moluccas south of Ceram area 314 square miles (816 square kilometers) 2 city and port on a bay of the Banda Sea on Ambon Island population …

11. ECHO mounted the first operations in the Moluccas in March 1999 when an aid package of EUR 1 million made it possible to set up medical health and food distribution programmes for displaced people from the Ambon and Kai islands.

12. On 26 April 2002, Jafar Umar Thalib, leader of the Laskar Jihad publicly rejected the Malino peace agreement (which was meant to end the fighting between Muslims and Christians in the Moluccas) and said that the Muslims would destroy all Christians in Ambon.

13. In 1999 and 2000 Halmahera was the site of violence that began as a purely ethnic dispute between residents of (mainly Christian) Kao and (entirely Muslim) Malifut sub-districts and then took on a religious nature as it spread through much of the North Moluccas, called the Maluku sectarian conflict.

14. But it never seems to have occurred to the court of committees that there was any danger to be Apprehended from the Dutch, so that they were all the more astonished and chagrined at the failure to establish trade with the Moluccas, where the natives were so friendly to the