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A Batak Toba man from Samosir with a hoe over his shoulders, pre-1939. The Toba Batak people (Batak Toba: ᯅᯖᯂ᯲ ᯖᯬᯅ) are the largest ethnic group of the Batak peoples of North Sumatra, Indonesia. The general term ‘Batak’ is sometimes used to refer to the Batak Toba people, for one thing because the Toba people are the largest ...
Batak people in different areas cultivated either sawah (wet rice fields) or ladang (dry rice), and the Toba Batak, most expert in agriculture, must have migrated to meet demand in new areas. The increasing importance of rice had religious significance, which increased the power of the Batak high priests, who had responsibility for ensuring ...
Tarombo is a term for genealogy in Batak culture/language. [1] The Batak believe that they all come from the same ancestor: Si Raja Batak, the Batak patriarch. [2] They kept the genealogy line tracing back to this ancestor, called Tarombo Batak. Its origins have been clouded with legends. [clarification needed]
A jabu - Toba Batak house. Batak architecture refers to the related architectural traditions and designs of the various Batak peoples of North Sumatra, Indonesia.Six groups of Batak speak separate but related languages: the Angkola, the Mandailing to the south, the Toba, to the north the Pakpak/Dairi, the Simalungun, and the Karo.
People who are not familiar with the Batak language may erroneously assume Parmalim is the name of the religion rather than its practitioners. At the end of the 19th and in the beginning of the 20th century the Parmalim movement, which originated in Toba lands spread to other areas of the Batak lands.
The Angkola (also known as Angkola Batak) people are part of the Batak ethnic group from North Sumatra who live in the South Tapanuli regency. The Angkola language is similar to Mandailing language also with Toba language , but it is sociolinguistically distinct.
Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen (6 February 1834 – 23 May 1918) was a Danish (now German) Lutheran missionary to Batak lands, North Sumatra who also translated the New Testament into the native Batak language and the first Ephorus of Batak Christian Protestant Church. Stephen Neill, a historian of missions, considered Nommensen one of the greatest ...
Toba people, indigenous peoples of the Gran Chaco in South America; Toba Batak people, a sub-ethnic group of Batak people from North Sumatra, Indonesia; Tuoba (拓拔), an early name for a clan of the Xianbei people in ancient China; Toba Sōjō (1053–1140), Japanese astronomer and artist-monk; Emperor Toba, emperor of Japan