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The Maluku Islands (/ m ə ˈ l uː k uː, m æ ˈ l uː k uː / mə-LOO-koo, mal-OO-; Indonesian: Kepulauan Maluku) or the Moluccas (/ m ə ˈ l ʌ k ə z / mə-LUK-əz) are an archipelago in the eastern part of Indonesia. Tectonically they are located on the Halmahera Plate within the Molucca Sea Collision Zone.
The South Moluccas are a group of islands within Indonesia claimed by the Republic of South Maluku. ... This page was last edited on 25 March 2024, at 11:39 (UTC).
The regencies and cities, with their administrative capitals, are listed below with their areas and their populations at the 2010 census [4] and at the 2020 census, [5] together with the official estimates for mid 2023. [1] The table also includes the numbers of districts (kecamatan) and villages (urban kelurahan and rural desa) in each city or ...
The Maluku Islands (formerly the Moluccas) are a group of islands within Indonesia. The region is administered under two provinces: Maluku and North Maluku . Major islands in the province of North Maluku
Moluccans are the Austronesian and Papuan-speaking ethnic groups indigenous to the Maluku Islands (also called the Moluccas), Eastern Indonesia. The region was historically known as the Spice Islands, [4] and today consists of two Indonesian provinces of Maluku and North Maluku. As such, "Moluccans" is used as a blanket term for the various ...
During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Morotai was generally within the sphere of influence of the powerful sultanate on the island of Ternate.It was the core of a larger region, called Moro, that included the island and the coastline of Halmahera closest to Morotai to the south.
As early as 1605 armed Dutch merchantmen of the VOC captured the Portuguese fort at the location of Ambon city in the South Moluccas. It was an area already strongly influenced by the Portuguese (Portuguese family names, religion and language were common) and the Dutch developed it into the first secure base of the Dutch East India Company (VOC).
List of the Maluku Islands; Maluku (province), a province of Indonesia comprising the central and southern parts of the archipelago; North Maluku, a province of Indonesia comprising the northern parts of the archipelago; Republic of South Maluku, 1950s insurgency in central Maluku Province and its government in exile