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Jalan Besar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Jalan Besar is the name of a street in the northeastern part of the Central Area in Singapore, which is its central business district. |
 | | Jalan Besar only appeared in the 1880s, when the Municipality constructed it through nipah land and called it Jalan Besar, meaning "big or wide road" in Malay. |
 | | A peculiarity of the street names in Jalan Besar is that many bear the names of World War I British generals and admirals and two French generals — Allenby, Kitchener, French, Maude, Jellicoe, Tyrwhitt, Foch, Sturdee, Beatty and Petain. |
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