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Before there was a regional expansion, the Mandarese along with the Bugis people, Makassar people and Toraja people formed a cultural diversity in South Sulawesi. Although politically West Sulawesi and South Sulawesi are divided by a border, the Mandarese are historically and culturally close knitted to their cognate relatives in South Sulawesi.
Polewali Mandar Regency was formerly an Indonesian Regency that used to be part of South Sulawesi, but on 22 September 2004 became part of the new West Sulawesi province. Prior to this, on 14 April 2002, the regency was split into two: [ 6 ] a residual Polewali Mandar Regency which is located to the south (including the coastal area), and a new ...
Polewali is the capital of the Polewali Mandar Regency of West Sulawesi, Indonesia. It is a seaside town on the coast of Mandar gulf.Polewali is the largest town in the province of West Sulawesi with 54,843 inhabitants at the 2010 Census [1] and 65,800 at the 2020 Census; [2] the official estimate as at mid 2022 was 67,320.
According to oral history of Mandar, [4] there were seven coastal Mandar kingdoms and seven inland Mandar kingdoms. The coastal kingdoms were Balanipa (now known as Tinambung), Sendana, Bangai (now known as Majene), Pamboang, Tapalan, Mamuju, and Binuang (now known as Polewali), while the inland kingdoms were Rantebulahan, Mambi, Arale, Tabulahan, Taban, Bambang, and Matanga.
The Mandanr, also known as Mandar or Mandan are a Pashtun tribe who are a branch of the larger Yusufzai tribe of Pashtuns in Afghanistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Mandar Torajans The native Makassar , Macassar , Makassarese , Makassan or Macassan (in Australian English) are one of the indigenous Sulawesi people, native to the southern Celebic peninsular regions (concentrated around the Makassar area) in Indonesia .
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Majene is a coastal town (bordered by the Mandar Bay to the south and the strait of Makassar to the west), comfortably nestled in a semicircular valley against a backdrop of rolling, forested hills. The town covers a total area of 55.19 square kilometers.