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v. t. e. The Aceh War ( Indonesian: Perang Aceh ), also known as the Dutch War or the Infidel War (1873–1904), was an armed military conflict between the Sultanate of Aceh and the Kingdom of the Netherlands which was triggered by discussions between representatives of Aceh and the United States in Singapore during early 1873. [ 8]
The Van Ophuijsen Spelling System was the Romanized standard orthography for the Indonesian language from 1901 to 1947. [1] Before the Van Ophuijsen Spelling System was in force, the Malay language (and consequently Indonesian) in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) did not have a standardized spelling, or was written in the Jawi script.
Bulan was a Khazar king who led the conversion of the Khazars to Judaism. His name means "elk" [ 1] or "hart" in Old Turkic. The date of his reign is unknown, as the date of the conversion is hotly disputed, though it is certain that Bulan reigned some time between the mid-8th and the mid-9th centuries. Nor is it settled whether Bulan was the ...
Islamic calendar stamp issued at King Khalid International Airport on 10 Rajab 1428 AH (24 July 2007 CE). The Hijri calendar (Arabic: ٱلتَّقْوِيم ٱلْهِجْرِيّ, romanized: al-taqwīm al-hijrī), or Arabic calendar also known in English as the Muslim calendar and Islamic calendar, is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days.
The song was a traditional folk song adapted from the popular French melody of La Rosalie. [ 1] Following the popularity of the French melody, it became a popular Indonesian folk song as well as for Malays at parties and cabarets in the Malay Peninsula from the 1920s to the 1930s. Since the independence of the Federation of Malaya in 1957 ...
van (Dutch) van. (Dutch) Owing to its Flemish origin, the surname of Ludwig van Beethoven contains the prefix van, rather than (as might be expected of someone born in Bonn) its German equivalent von. van ( Dutch pronunciation: [vɑn] ⓘ) is a very common prefix in Dutch language surnames, where it is known as a tussenvoegsel.
List of Muslim astronauts. Sultan bin Salman Al Saud, the first Arab and Muslim to fly in outer space. Anousheh Ansari, the first Muslimah and Iranian in space. First Muslim, first Saudi, first Arab, first member of royalty in space. First Syrian in space; second Arab in space. First North Caucasian in space.
The star and crescent symbol used in the minted coins of the Sassanian Empire from the 3rd century until the 7th century. This coin was coined under Ardashir III. The Adoration of the Magi by Stephan Lochner; on the left, the crescent and star is depicted in the flag of representatives of Byzantium. The conjoined representation of a crescent ...