See also:

• MACASSAR (MAKASSAR, MANGKASAR)

MACASSAR (MAKASSAR, MANGKASAR)  , the See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital of a See also:

• DISTRICT

district of the same name in the See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island of See also:

• CELEBES

Celebes, Dutch See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

East Indies, and the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

• TOWN

town of the Dutch See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government of Celebes . Pop . 17,925 (940 Europeans, 2618 See also:

• CHINESE, JAPANESE AND

Chinese, 168 See also:

• ARABS

Arabs) . It stands on the See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

west See also:

• COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast of the See also:

• SOUTHERN

southern See also:

• PENINSULA
• PENINSULA (Lat. paeninsula, from paene, almost, and insula, an island)

peninsula of the island, near the southern extremity of the See also:

• MACASSAR (MAKASSAR, MANGKASAR)

Macassar Strait, which separates Celebes from See also:

• BORNEO

Borneo . Macassar consists of the Dutch town and See also:

• PORT

port, known as See also:

• VLAARDINGEN

Vlaardingen, and the See also:

• MALAY

Malay town which lies inland . Macassar's See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade amounts to about 1,250,000 annually, and consists mainly of See also:

• COFFEE (Fr: cafe, Ger. Kaffee)

coffee, trepang, See also:

• COPRA (a Spanish and Portuguese adaptation of the Malay kopperah, and Hindustani khopra, the coco-nut)

copra, gums, spices and valuable See also:

• TIMBER

timber . For the Macassar See also:

• PEOPLE

people and for the Strait, see CELEBES . " Macassar oil " is a trade name, not See also:

• GEOGRAPHICAL

geographical : see See also:

• ANTIMACASSAR

ANTIMACASSAR .