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	Ambon City - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ambon City has an airport, and was home to the Pattimura University, a state university, and the Indonesian Christian University of Maluku (Universitas Kristen Indonesia Maluku, or UKIM), a private Protestant university.
		Ambon City was the site of a major Dutch naval base, which was captured in World War II by the Japanese in 1942.
		Ambon was a center of Christian missionary activity, and Ambon and the surrounding islands have many Christians as well as the Muslims that predominate in most of Indonesia.
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /Ambon_City (432 words)

	Ambon Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Seram, Ambon, and most of Maluku are part of Wallacea, the group of Indonesian islands that are separated by deep water from both the Asian and Australian continents, and have never been linked to the continents by land.
		Ambon used to be the world center of Clove production; until the nineteenth century, the Dutch prohibited the rearing of the clove-tree in all the other islands subject to their rule, in order to secure the monopoly to Ambon.
		Ambon City was the site of a major Dutch military base, which was captured from Allied forces by the Japanese in the Battle of Ambon (1942), during World War II.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ambon_Island (863 words)

	Ambon Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ambon island is a part of the Maluku (Moluccas) archipelago, lies on the eastern part of Indonesia between 3° - 8° 30" South Latitude and 125°45" - 135° East Latitude.
		According to the year 2000 census, the population of Ambon island was 301.746 people, 75% live in the urban area of the city of Ambon while the rest live in the villages / rural areas.
		Ambon Manis-e refers not only to the beaury of the city itself but also to the beauty of the island, which represents the beauty of the whole Maluku archipelago.
	www.maluku-colorful.com /ambon.htm (449 words)

	Ambon City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		275,888) is the main city and seaport of Ambon Island, and is the capital of Maluku (Indonesian province) province of Indonesia.
		Ambon City has an airport, and was home to the, a state university, and the (Universitas Kristen Indonesia Maluku, or UKIM), a private Protestant university, though both were seriously damaged during the violence in 2000-2002.
		In 1950, Ambon City was the center of an uprising against Indonesian rule, which resulted in the declaring its independence from Indonesia.
	www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Ambon_City (860 words)

	Ambon Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ambon City has an airport and is home to the Pattimura a state university and the Indonesian Christian University of (Universitas Kristen Indonesia Maluku or UKIM) a Protestant university.
		Ambon Island lies off the south-west of Seram on the north side of the Sea being one of a series of isles in the inner circle round the It is 32 m.
		Seram Ambon most of Maluku are part of Wallacea the group of Indonesian islands that separated by deep water from both the and Australian continents and have never been to the continents by land.
	www.freeglossary.com /Ambon_Island (1090 words)

	Encyclopedia: Battle of Ambon
		The Bay of Ambon and the southern part of the island are in the background.
		The Battle of Ambon occurred on the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies, on January 30-February 3, 1942 during the Pacific campaign of World War II.
		Another result of the capture of Ambon was the realisation of Australian fears of air attacks, when Japanese planes based at Ambon took part in major air raids on Darwin, Australia on February 19.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Battle-of-Ambon (2539 words)

	Ambon on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ambon was temporarily under British rule from 1796 to 1802 and again from 1810 to 1814.
		The demography of Ambon in the seventeenth century: evidence from colonial proto-censuses.
		Intervention des soldats indonésiens dimanche à Ambon Il s'agit des pires violences à Ambon depuis un accord de paix, en 2.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/A/Ambon.asp (800 words)

	Diving Ambon in Indonesia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The islands, which are mainly uninhabited and framed by Irian Jaya to the east and Sulawesi to the west, spread over a huge area of almost 1.5 million square km, most of which is ocean.
		Ambon city's heyday was during the Dutch control of the last few centuries.
		Ambon is a half Muslim and half Christian community.
	www.divernet.com /travel/ambon397.htm (1208 words)

	ipedia.com: Ambon Island Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ambon Island lies off the south-west of Seram, on the north side of the Banda Sea, being one of a series of volcanic isles in the inner circle round the sea.
		Ambon City lies on the north-west of the peninsula of Leitimor, and has a safe and commodious harbor.
		The rainfall, however, after the eastern monsoons, is very heavy, and the island is liable to violent hurricanes.
	www.ipedia.com /ambon_island.html (862 words)

	Ambon Island - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rainfall can be heavy, especially after the eastern monsoons, and the island is vulnerable to violent hurricanes.
		Legacies of the authoritarian past: religious violence in Indonesia's Moluccan Islands (1).
		The Rising Sun in the Spice Islands : A History of Ambon during the Japanese Occupation
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /ambon_island.htm (901 words)

	Ambon Island - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The main city and capital of Maluku province was Ambon City, located on Ambon Island.
		It includes a mass of islands in the Banda Sea (2 30'-8 20' S.and i2545'-i35E.), including the island-belt which surrounds the sea on the north, east and south; and is divided for administrative purposes into nine districts (afdeelingen):
		Amboyna Island lies off the south-west of Ceram, on the north side of the Banda Sea, being one of a series of volcanic isles in the inner circle round the sea.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Ambon_Island (762 words)

	Ambon Island - Definition up Erdmond.Com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ambon City has an airport, and is home to the Pattimura_University, a state university, and the Indonesian_Christian_University_of_Maluku (Universitas Kristen Indonesia Maluku, or UKIM), a private Protestant university.
		The wild areas of Ambon Island are covered in tropical_rainforest, part of the Seram_rain_forests ecoregion, together with neighboring Seram.
		In 1654, after many fruitless negotiations, Oliver_Cromwell compelled the United Provinces to give the sum of 300,000, together with a small island, as compensation to the descendants of those who suffered in the "Amboyna_Massacre." In 1673 the poet John_Dryden produced his tragedy ''Amboyna; or the Cruelties of the Dutch to the English Merchants''.
	www.erdmond.com /Ambon_Island.html (871 words)

	Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia - Sources of Conflict
		They constitute the majority on Ambon (approximately 60%) and are indigenous Malukans (see Ambon population figures), whereas the Muslims are in the minority and have lost a significant portion of their population due to people fleeing the conflict and returning to their places of origin.
		Reality The Muslim population on Ambon is declining (65-70,000 to Butan alone) because of an exodus from Ambon and all islands of central and south Maluku (primarily transmigrants from Buton and South Sulawesi).
		On Ambon, Saparua and Seram this is accomplished by a constant pressure from Christian fighters on isolated Muslim communities; the transmigrants still have strong family ties in their places of origin and therefore, faced with a constant threat of violence, they opt to return to their families.
	www.websitesrcg.com /ambon/documents/Advocat1.htm (1853 words)

	Tensions high on Indonesian island of Ambon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ambon City was placed under military control on March 11 after pitched battles between thousands of armed Christians and Muslims resulted in 10 deaths and scores of injuries the previous day.
		Ambon is part of the Maluka province, also known as the Spice Islands, which had a long association with the previous Dutch colonial rulers.
		The island was deeply divided into a mosaic of separate villages and neighbourhoods (kampungs) based on religion and ethnicity.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/mar1999/indo-m23.shtml (1277 words)

	Maluku (Indonesian province) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Maluku is a province of Indonesia, comprising, broadly, the southern part of the Maluku Islands (also known as the Moluccas, Molucca Islands or Moluccan Islands).
		The main city and capital of Maluku province is Ambon City on the small Ambon Island.
		All the Maluku Islands formed a single province of Indonesia from 1950 until 1999.
	leessummit.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Maluku_(Indonesian_province) (902 words)

	Report on Violence in Ambon - from HRW (in English)
		Ambon is the name of a city and an island, and the term "Ambonese" describes a cultural area that embraces many of the islands in the district of Central Maluku, Maluku province, Indonesia.
		In Ambon, proponents of this theory maintain, the instigating agents were a group of Jakarta-based Ambonese gangsters with ties to both the Soeharto family and army officers sidelined after Soeharto stepped down.
		A report from the task force of the Ambon branch of the Indonesian Council of Islamic Scholars (Majelis Ulama Indonesia or MUI) noted that three of the victims, Armin, Mui, and Husein died in the vicinity of the mosque, and the fourth, Usman Wakano, died after being attacked with a machete.
	www.fica.org /hr/ambon/idMaluku-HRW.html (17178 words)

	Hainan Island
		Major camp was Hasho, [Basuo] on the west coast of the island.
		The guards were very cruel and beat the chaps with iron bars, pieces of thick timber, rifles and many had to be carried back to camp by their mates.
		Ambon Island - Story of the atrocities committed on Ambon and Sado Islands by the Japanese in a post-war interview.
	www.mansell.com /pow_resources/hainan.html (560 words)

	The fall of Ambon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The principal fortifications were at Paso, also adjacent to the town of Ambon on the Laitimor Peninsula at Bennet was a battery of guns operated by Dutch permanent artillerymen and was emplaced in concrete with accommodation, underground telephone system and covered the Bay of Ambon and Laha airfield.
		Roach's protests of inadequate forces for the defence of Ambon caused him to be replaced by Major Scott, a veteran of Gallipoli, an outstanding company commander in France and was at one time a captain commanding a battalion.
		The Dutch positions and the Australian deployment on Laitimor were to prevent the Japanese from forming a bridgehead in the Ambon Bay and to defend the approaches to the town of Ambon and Paso.
	www.geocities.com /dutcheastindies/ambon.html (2556 words)

	Ambon City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ambon City was the site of a major Dutch naval base, which was captured in World War Two by the Japanese in 1942.
		Ambon was a center of Christian missionary activity, and Ambon and the surrounding islands have many Christians as well as the Muslim s that predominate in most of Indonesia.
		Indonesia's Ambon relatively calm despite sniper fire [CNN]
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Ambon_City.html (540 words)

	[Australian War Memorial]
		The largest group was congregated on Singapore Island and Johore (5,549); but 4,830 were distributed in several camps and in a number of working parties in Thailand and remote areas of Burma.
		One group was transported to Hainan Island aboard the Taiko Maru, disembarking on 5 November 1942 and being imprisoned in Haicho Camp (Colonel W. Scott's Force).
		Conditions on Hainan Island were primitive and barbaric, and at the end of the war, only 182 were alive.
	www.awm.gov.au /encyclopedia/pow/general_info.htm (2898 words)

	Corpus Christi Online - / Military enforces security crackdown on riot-torn Indonesian island
		AMBON, Indonesia -- Indonesia's military clamped down on the riot-torn island of Ambon Sunday to quell fighting among Christians and Muslims that has killed more than 200 people in less than two months.
		Meanwhile on Ambon, some 1,500 miles east of the capital, Jakarta, soldiers conducted body and luggage searches on passengers coming and going on inter-island ferries and ships at the island's main port.
		Fierce fighting first erupted on Ambon on Jan. 19, and spread to five other islands in Maluku Province, which were known as the Spice Islands in Dutch colonial times.
	www.caller2.com /autoconv/newsworld99/newsworld155.html (481 words)

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		Nevertheless, Provincial Health authorities are convinced the total population of Ambon Island and Ambon Municipality has increased by IDPs—largely immigrating from Buru and Central Maluku Districts.
		Ambon Island subsumes 2 subdistricts of Central Maluku District as well as 3 subdistricts of Ambon Municipality.
		Waai, a coastal Christian village situated between two Moslem villages in northeast Ambon Island, was attacked the night of July 31-August 1.
	www.who.int /disasters/repo/5853.doc (2618 words)

	Nationalists Soldiers and Separatists: The Ambonese Islands from Colonialism to Revolt 1880 - 1950 (Select Books)
		Social and economic changes experienced in Ambon society during the last century of colonial rule are examined and within this context the revolt of the Republic of the South Moluccas is explored.
		April 25, 1950, The Republic of the South Moluccas was proclaimed in Ambon Town.
		The Ambon region is of particular interest because it posed a serious challenge to the political cohesion of the newly independent Indonesian state.
	www.selectbooks.com.sg /titles/25596.htm (212 words)

	Ambon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Ambon, between Allied and Japanese forces, occurred on the island in 1942.
		In France: Ambon, a commune in the Morbihan département
		This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ambon (89 words)

	Ambon
		The island was one of the Portuguese settlements founded in 1521, taken over by the Dutch in 1605, alternating between British and Dutch administration, until in 1814 restored to the Dutch.
		After the area fell to the Japanese, it became a base for Japanese for the rest of the war, and was used to stage land based bombers against Australia.
		Marinevliegkamp Halong (MVK-H, naval air facility Halong), on Ambon Bay adjacent to the settlement of Ambon, was under development by the Marineluchtvaartdienst /RNNAS as one of four medium capacity seaplane operating bases in the East Indies.
	www.pacificwrecks.com /provinces/indonesia_ambon.html (1010 words)

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