Teronoh (or Tronoh, Ternoh) ( Jawi: ترونوه; ;

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: துரோனோ) is a small tin-mining town in Kinta District,

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. The town was said to have been founded by the Minangkabau of Talu, a village located in present-day West Pasaman, Sumatra; the community erected a ''

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taruno'' in which young men would be expected to be housed there while starting their own families, which Tronoh would be named after. The tin-mining industry boom during the early 20th century saw Tronoh, a town believed to be old, grow from a small village into a major town. The mines in the area included Teronoh South Ltd., Tronoh Extended Ltd., Chung Thye Phin's Phin Tak Mine (also known as the Phin Tak Kongsi) and Chia Tek's Lee Yeoh Mine, all of which were acquired by Foo Choo Choon's Tronoh Mines Ltd. between 1912 and 1921. A

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line linking the town and

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was completed in 1909 and used to transport tin ore. The tracks were dismantled by the Japanese during

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and were never rebuilt. Shortly after the war ended the tin industry deteriorated, and with it, the importance of the town.Khoo and Lubis cite oral tradition in dating the founding of Tronoh to around 1883 and support this with an entry by de Morgan who, in 1884, described a place called 'Kliang Tronong,' which the authors believe to be Tronoh. The main road that used to cut through town linking Ipoh with the seaside town of Lumut has been replaced by a new highway bypassing the town. Today Teronoh is a sleepy little town although that may change giving that two universities ( Universiti Teknologi Petronas and

Universiti Teknologi MARA The MARA Technological University ( Malay: ''Universiti Teknologi MARA''; Jawi: اونيۏرسيتي تيكنولوڬي مارا; abbr. UiTM) is a public university in Malaysia, based primarily in Shah Alam, Selangor. It was established to ...

) are in the vicinity.

References

External links

Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), Teronoh - official website
Kinta District Towns in Perak {{Perak-geo-stub