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Colonial architecture in Padang, Padang
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File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Uitbreiding electrische centrale TMnr 10006994.jpg, Electrical plant photographed in 1912
File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Portret van een werknemer van de Padang Tabak Maatschappij op Sumatra TMnr 60042100.jpg, Padang Tobacco Company worker
Colonial architecture in Padang, Sumatra
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, Indonesia
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, includes the Masjid Muhammadan. Padang
Padang () is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the Indonesian Provinces of Indonesia, province of West Sumatra. It had a population of 833,562 at the 2010 CensusBiro Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2011. and 909,040 at the 2020 Census;Bad ...
has long been a trade center and was a center of pepper trade and gold mine from the 16th to 17th century . Trade extended to India, Portugal, United Kingdom and the Netherlands. In 1663 the city came under the Dutch authority (Dutch East Indies
The Dutch East Indies, also known as the Netherlands East Indies (; ), was a Dutch Empire, Dutch colony with territory mostly comprising the modern state of Indonesia, which Proclamation of Indonesian Independence, declared independence on 17 Au ...
). The city was under British authority twice, during the war between United Kingdom and the Netherlands (1781-1784) and during the Napoleonic Wars
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(1795-1815). Afterwards the city was transferred back to the Netherlands. It came under control of Imperial Japan during World War II, and after the war control was eventually transferred to the independent Republic of Indonesia. Padang has also been a center for coffee, salt and textile trade.Indonesia Tourism
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* Colonial architecture in IndonesiaReferences
{{reflist Colonial architecture in Indonesia