Koedoes Residency ( nl, Residentie Koedoes) was an administrative division (

Residency Residency may refer to: * Domicile (law), the act of establishing or maintaining a residence in a given place ** Permanent residency, indefinite residence within a country despite not having citizenship * Residency (medicine), a stage of postgra ...

) of Central Java province of the Dutch East Indies with its capital at Kudus, which existed between 1928 and 1931. It was significantly larger than the present-day

Kudus Regency :''This article refers to the regency in Indonesia; see also Al-Quds (Jerusalem)'' Kudus ( jv, ꦏꦸꦢꦸꦱ꧀) is a regency ( id, kabupaten) in Central Java province in Indonesia. Its capital is Kudus. It covers 425.16 km2 and is thus t ...

, as it also contained

Demak Regency Demak ( jv, ꦢꦼꦩꦏ꧀) is a regency located in the Indonesian province of Central Java, on northern coast of the island. It is bordered by Jepara regency and the Java Sea to the north, Kudus and Grobogan regencies to the east, Grobogan ...

and

Jepara Regency Jepara ( jv, ꦗꦼꦥꦫ) is a regency in the northeast of the Indonesian province of Central Java. It covers an area of 1,004.13 km2 and had a population of 1,097,280 at the 2010 census and 1,184,947 at the 2020 census. Its capital is Jep ...

History

The territory around Kudus and

Demak Demak is on the north coast of Central Java province, on the island of Java, Indonesia. * Demak, Demak, modern-day large town * Demak Sultanate, sixteenth century sultanate * Demak Regency Demak ( jv, ꦢꦼꦩꦏ꧀) is a regency located in t ...

was the core of the

Demak Sultanate The Demak Sultanate (کسلطانن دمق) was a Javanese Muslim state located on Java's north coast in Indonesia, at the site of the present-day city of Demak. A port fief to the Hindu-Buddhist Majapahit kingdom thought to have been founded ...

in the sixteenth century; after its decline the Mataram Sultanate came to claim it. Mataram were then forced to concede it to the Dutch; during the nineteenth century and early twentieth century, the area of Koedoes Residency had been a part of

Semarang Residency Semarang Residency ( nl, Residentie Semarang) was an administrative subdivision (Residency) of the Dutch East Indies located on the northern coast of Central Java and named after its capital city Semarang. It existed from 1818 to 1942, although ...

. The area was long known for its tobacco and cotton production as well as historic mosques such as the Menara Kudus Mosque. Koedoes Residency was created as a result of the 1925 Decree on the Administrative Organization which allowed for the subdivision of existing residencies in the Indies. However, it took time to implement and was not put in place in Central Java province () until 1928. At that point, a new Koedoes Residency was created with its capital in Kudus, consisting of roughly one third of the former Semarang Residency, including the Koedoes,

, and Japara regencies, with a total size of roughly 2700

square kilometres Square kilometre ( International spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures) or square kilometer (American spelling), symbol km2, is a multiple of the square metre, the SI unit of area or surface area. 1 km2 is e ...

. There were other minor border changes; Demak Regency gained a subdistrict from

Semarang Regency Semarang is a landlocked regency ( id, kabupaten) in Central Java province in Indonesia. It covers an area of 950.207 km2 and had a population of 930,727 at the 2010 census,Biro Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2011. 999,817 at the 2015 census and ...

and ceded two to

Grobogan Regency Grobogan Regency ( jv, ꦒꦿꦺꦴꦧꦺꦴꦒꦤ꧀) is a regency ( id, kabupaten) located in northeastern part of the Central Java province in Indonesia. Created on 4 March 1726, the Grobogan Regency has an area of 2,022.25 km2, and is t ...

. Willem Arthur Cornelis Ilgen, a former and Assistant Resident, became the first and only Resident of Koedoes on 1 July 1928, and Assistant Residents were also appointed in the three Regencies located in the Residency. The Residency was used as a division in the 1930 Dutch East Indies census; its population was estimated to have been 1,027,786. Koedoes Residency was abolished in 1931 when the Indies government restructured the Residencies in Java once again; its southern part became part of Semarang Residency, and its northern half became a part of the new Djapara-Rembang Residency.

References

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External links

Memoir of the former resident of Koedoes, W.A.C. Ilgen
(in Dutch) Residencies of the Dutch East Indies Central Java