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Dieng is a name that comes from Old Javanese words: di means "place" and hyang means "ancestors" or "gods", literally "Dihyang" means "place of the ancestors" or "place where the gods reside". [5] Dieng is a mountainous area, the ancient Javanese believed that the ancestors and gods resided in high places. [ 6 ]
Minangkabau mosque circa 1892–1905 photographed by Christiaan Benjamin Nieuwenhuis The Minangkabau Highlands is a mountainous area in the province of West Sumatra, located around three mountains— Mount Marapi, Mount Singgalang, and Mount Sago —in west-central Sumatra, Indonesia. The highlands are part of the Barisan Mountains, the largest mountain range in Sumatra. They are home to the ...
Satellite image of the Tibetan Plateau between the Himalayan mountains to the south and the Taklamakan Desert to the north. In geology and physical geography, a plateau (/ p l ə ˈ t oʊ, p l æ ˈ t oʊ, ˈ p l æ t oʊ /; French:; pl.: plateaus or plateaux), [1] [2] also called a high plain or a tableland, is an area of a highland consisting of flat terrain that is raised sharply above the ...
Mts Sundoro and Sumbing from ISS, 2021. Mount Sumbing (Indonesian: Gunung Sumbing) is an active stratovolcano in Central Java, Indonesia.This volcano is symmetrical like its neighbor, Mount Sindoro which lies to its northwest.
Andersen's most recognized work has been on volcanoes in Indonesia, where he has documented volcanic eruptions since 2008. [2] His documentary photography and observations on volcanoes include Merapi, [3] The Tengger Caldera, [4] Tangkuban Perahu, [5] Dieng Volcanic Complex [6] and Anak Krakatau.
The Ethiopian Highlands (also called the Abyssinian Highlands) [1] [2] is a rugged mass of mountains in Ethiopia in Northeast Africa.It forms the largest continuous area of its elevation in the continent, with little of its surface falling below 1,500 m (4,900 ft), while the summits reach heights of up to 4,550 m (14,930 ft).
Wild horses on the Giara plateau. The Giara di Gesturi, Sardinian: Sa Jara Manna, is a high, steep-sided basaltic plateau which extends for about 42 km 2 (16 sq mi) in the districts of Gesturi, Tuili and Setzu in the province of Medio Campidano, and Genoni in the province of Oristano, in the southern central part of the island of Sardinia, Italy.
The fort was first constructed by local Malays in the early 16th century at the behest of Tun Mahmud Shah of Malacca.Towards the end of the 17th century, Bugis settlers began to establish themselves on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula and installed Raja Lumu as the first Sultan of Selangor in 1742, who styled himself as Sultan Salehuddin Shah.