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MACASSAR (MAKASSAR, MANGKASAR)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 193 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MACASSAR (MAKASSAR, MANGKASAR)  , the
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capital of a
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district of the same name in the
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island of
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Celebes, Dutch
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East Indies, and the
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chief
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town of the Dutch
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government of Celebes . Pop . 17,925 (940 Europeans, 2618
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Chinese, 168
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Arabs) . It stands on the
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west
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coast of the
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southern
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peninsula of the island, near the southern extremity of the
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Macassar Strait, which separates Celebes from
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Borneo . Macassar consists of the Dutch town and
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port, known as
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Vlaardingen, and the
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Malay town which lies inland . Macassar's
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trade amounts to about 1,250,000 annually, and consists mainly of
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coffee, trepang,
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copra, gums, spices and valuable
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timber . For the Macassar
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people and for the Strait, see CELEBES . " Macassar oil " is a trade name, not
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geographical : see
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ANTIMACASSAR .

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