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Pasar Baru
Pasar Baru is an kelurahan, subdistrict () in the Sawah Besar Districts of Indonesia, district () in Central Jakarta, Indonesia. It has postal code of 10710. History Founding of Pasar Baru Pasar Baru is also the name of a 19th-century market which was established in the neighborhood and gave its name to the administrative village. Established in 1820, Pasar Baru is one of the oldest shopping district in Jakarta. Pasar Baru is located in the heart of Jakarta's busiest district. The area centered in a street called Jalan Pasar Baru that runs in a north–south axis. The southern edge of the street is marked with a gate and a bridge that span over a canal that connects to Jalan Raya Pos, a section of Java's Great Post Road that runs through Jakarta. Right across the Pasar Baru southern gate is Jakarta Art Building. The Pasar Baru street is lined with numbers of shops, restaurants and also several shopping centers. Most of shops here sell textiles, shoes, clothes and other fashion pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch Language
Dutch ( ) is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language and is the List of languages by total number of speakers, third most spoken Germanic language. In Europe, Dutch is the native language of most of the population of the Netherlands and Flanders (which includes 60% of the population of Belgium). "1% of the EU population claims to speak Dutch well enough in order to have a conversation." (page 153). Dutch was one of the official languages of South Africa until 1925, when it was replaced by Afrikaans, a separate but partially Mutual intelligibility, mutually intelligible daughter language of Dutch. Afrikaans, depending on the definition used, may be considered a sister language, spoken, to some degree, by at least 16 million people, mainly in South Africa and Namibia, and evolving from Cape Dutch dialects. In South America, Dutch is the native l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Post Road
The Great Post Road (, ) is the name for the historical road that runs across Java and connects Anyer with Panarukan. It was built during the administration of Herman Willem Daendels (1808–1811), Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, governor-general of the Dutch East Indies, using unpaid forced labour that cost thousands of lives. Construction ''La Grande Route'', as Daendels called it, was a military road built by the order of King Louis Bonaparte, who ruled the Kingdom of Holland during the Napoleonic Wars. France was at war with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the road was intended to support the defence of Java by, e.g. making it easier to transfer soldiers and supplies. In 1750, before the road was constructed, connections existed between Batavia, Dutch East Indies, Batavia (present-day Jakarta) and Semarang and onwards to Surabaya. A north-south connection between Semarang, Surakarta and onwards to Yogyakarta was also available then. Howev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ratu Plaza
The Ratu Plaza (also known as e-Mall or e-Mall Ratu Plaza) is a shopping mall located in Gelora, Tanah Abang, Central Jakarta, Indonesia. It consists of five floors, four of which have over 6,000 m² of retail space. The mall mainly caters to information technology customers in South Jakarta and gained reputation among expatriates and Indonesians alike for being a hotbed for bootlegged DVDs. In the 80s the mall was the host to the first Nike showroom for Indonesian market. Other big names such as Kicker's, and Levi's also had outlets in Ratu Plaza. The mall's Carrefour supermarket (since replaced with Lotte Mart Lotte Mart is a South Korean hypermarket that sells a variety of groceries, clothing, toys, electronics, and other goods, with headquarters in South Korea. Lotte Mart is a division of the Lotte Co., Ltd. which sells food and shopping services ...) suffered several gas poisoning incidents in 2007 and 2008, to the point that Jakarta's governor at the time Fauzi Bowo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matahari (department Store)
PT Matahari Department Store Tbk, commonly known as Matahari, is the largest retail platform in Indonesia with stores located across the country and online presence on Matahari.com.Matahari Department Store Tbk 2020, p. 6-7 History The Company was established on October 24, 1958, with the opening of a children's fashion store in Jakarta's Pasar Baru Pasar Baru is an kelurahan, subdistrict () in the Sawah Besar Districts of Indonesia, district () in Central Jakarta, Indonesia. It has postal code of 10710. History Founding of Pasar Baru Pasar Baru is also the name of a 19th-century market whi ... district; the first proper Matahari outlet was opened in 1972, considered as the first modern department store in the country. Since July 14, 2021, the majority and controlling shareholder of Matahari Department Store Tbk has changed to Auric Digital Retail Pte. Ltd. Meanwhile, Multipolar remains one of the main shareholders. The rest are other investors. Currently, Matahari opera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calcutta
Kolkata, also known as Calcutta (List of renamed places in India#West Bengal, its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of West Bengal. It lies on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River, west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary Financial centre, financial and Commercial area, commercial centre of Eastern India, eastern and Northeast India, northeastern India. Kolkata is the list of cities in India by population, seventh most populous city in India with an estimated city proper population of 4.5 million (0.45 crore) while its metropolitan region Kolkata Metropolitan Area is the List of million-plus agglomerations in India, third most populous metropolitan region of India with a metro population of over 15 million (1.5 crore). Kolkata is regarded by many sources as the cultural capital of India and a historically and culturally significant city in the historic Bengal, region of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mumbai
Mumbai ( ; ), also known as Bombay ( ; its official name until 1995), is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Mumbai is the financial capital and the most populous city proper of India with an estimated population of 12.5 million (1.25 crore). Mumbai is the centre of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, the seventh-most populous metropolitan area in the world with a population of over 23 million (2.3 crore). Mumbai lies on the Konkan coast on the west coast of India and has a deep natural harbour. In 2008, Mumbai was named an alpha world city. Mumbai has the highest number of billionaires out of any city in Asia. The seven islands that constitute Mumbai were earlier home to communities of Marathi language-speaking Koli people. For centuries, the seven islands of Bombay were under the control of successive indigenous rulers before being ceded to the Portuguese Empire, and subsequently to the East India Company in 1661, as part of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamils
The Tamils ( ), also known by their endonym Tamilar, are a Dravidian peoples, Dravidian ethnic group who natively speak the Tamil language and trace their ancestry mainly to the southern part of the Indian subcontinent. The Tamil language is one of the longest-surviving classical languages, with over two thousand years of Tamil literature, written history, dating back to the Sangam period (between 300 BCE and 300 CE). Tamils constitute about 5.7% of the Indian population and form the majority in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu and the union territory of Puducherry (union territory), Puducherry. They also form significant proportions of the populations in Sri Lankan Tamils, Sri Lanka (15.3%), Tamil Malaysians, Malaysia (7%) and Indian Singaporeans, Singapore (5%). Tamils have migrated world-wide since the 19th century CE and a significant population exists in South Africa, Mauritius, Fiji, as well as other regions such as the Southeast Asia, Middle East, Caribbean and parts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kampung Madras
Kampung Madras (Madras Village), formerly known as Kampung Keling (), is the Little India (location), Little India of Medan, Indonesia, and one of the city's significant ethnic enclaves. Kampung Madras encompasses an area of approximately 10 hectares, and hosts a large Indian Indonesian, Indian (mostly Tamils). Now a now part of the Medan Polonia district, Kampung Madras is home to many sporting goods resellers, sari stores, and other shophouses. In the mid-nineteenth century, Dutch Empire, the colonial Dutch began importing Indian labor to work on Sumatran plantations and to construct roads, trenches, and dykes; today, Sumatra is home to as many as 60,000 people of Indian descent, many of whom reside in Medan. This area was originally called ''Patisah'' (), and the name became a district in Medan called ''Petisah''. The enclave's name changed to ''Kampung Madras'' to reflect the native land of the people of Indian descent who reside there. However, many people still refer to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medan
Medan ( , ) is the capital city, capital and largest city of the Indonesian Provinces of Indonesia, province of North Sumatra. The nearby Strait of Malacca, Port of Belawan, and Kualanamu International Airport make Medan a regional hub and multicultural metropolis, acting as a financial centre for Sumatra and a gateway to the western part of Indonesia. About 60% of the economy in North Sumatra is backed by trading, agriculture, and processing industries, including exports from its 4 million acres of palm oil plantations. The Government of Indonesia, National Development Planning Agency listed Medan as one of the Regions of Indonesia#Development regions, four main central cities in Indonesia, alongside Jakarta, Surabaya, and Makassar. In terms of population, it is the most populous city in Indonesia outside of the island of Java. Its population as of 2023 is approximately equal to the country of Moldova. As of the 2020 Census, Medan had a population of 2,435,252 within its city li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sindhi People
Sindhis are an Indo-Aryan peoples, Indo-Aryan Ethnicity, ethnic group originating from and native to Sindh, a region of Pakistan, who share a common Sindhi culture, History of Sindh, history, #History, ancestry, and Sindhi language, language. The historical homeland of Sindhis is bordered by southeastern Balochistan; the Bahawalpur Division, Bahawalpur region of Punjab; the Marwar, Marwar region of Rajasthan; and the Kutch, Kutch region of Gujarat. Sindhis are the third-largest Ethnic groups in Pakistan, ethnic group in Pakistan, after the Punjabis and Pashtuns, forming a majority in Sindh with Sindhis of Balochistan, historical communities also found in neighbouring Balochistan, Pakistan, Balochistan. They form a significant Sindhis in India, diasporic population in India, mostly Partition of India, partition-era migrants and their descendants. Sindhi diaspora is also present in other parts of South Asia; as well as in the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, Gulf states, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
