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	Encyclopedia article: Madura (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The main language of Madura is Madurese (additional info and facts about Madurese), which is also spoken on many of the 66 outlying islands.
		Madura is famous for is bull-racing competitions, where a jockey, usually a young boy, rides a simple wooden sled pulled by a pair of bull (Uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle) s over a course of about 100 meters in ten to fifteen seconds.
		On the whole, Madura is one of the poorer regions of the East Java province.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/madura.htm (635 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Madura Mission
		At the outset it may be remarked that the districts comprised under the Madura Mission were totally removed from Portuguese political or state influence, so that even the prestige of the Portuguese name can hardly be regarded as having reached there, to say nothing of the machinery of the State.
		In 1846 the Madura Mission was in turn made into a vicariate Apostolic with Mgr Alexis Canoz as its first vicar Apostolic; but the portion north of the Cauvery was retained by Pondicherry.
		In 1886, on the establishment of the hierarchy, the Madura Vicariate was made the Diocese of Trichinopoly.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09519b.htm (815 words)

	Madura. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The generally chalky soil limits agriculture, and much food has to be imported.
		From the 11th to the 18th cent., Madura was dominated by the rulers of Java.
		It was made a part of Indonesia in 1949.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ma/Madura.html (158 words)

	Madura on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Musicians at the fairgorunds for the bull racing grand championship in Pamekasan, the capital of Madura.
		A bull is decorated for the bull racing grand championship in Pamekasan, the capital of Madura.
		A team of bulls is at the bull racing grand championship in Pamekasan, the capital of Madura.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/Madura.asp (767 words)

	AllRefer.com - Madura, Indonesia (Indonesian Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Madura, Indonesia (Indonesian Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
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		Madura or Madoera[both: mAdoo´rA] Pronunciation Key, island (1990 pop.
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