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 Borneo - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Indonesian Borneo (called Kalimantan by the Indonesians) covers over 70% of the total area, and the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak and the sultanate of Brunei stretch across the north coast.
Borneo was visited by the Portuguese in 1521, and shortly thereafter by the Spanish, who established trade relations with the island.
The British adventurer James Brooke took the north edge of the island in the 1840s, and what is now Sabah was declared a British protectorate in 1882, Sarawak and Brunei in 1888.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/b/borneo.asp   (788 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Borneo
The northern part of Borneo, now under British suzerainty, was separated from this immense vicariate, 27 August, 1855; that part of Borneo which is under Dutch rule was taken from the Vicariate Apostolic of Batavia, 11 February, 1905, and made into a separate prefecture under the care of the Capuchins.
Up to the time of the separation what is now the Prefecture of Dutch Borneo was administered by the Jesuits who had charge of the Vicariate of Batavia, and who visited the Catholics of Dutch Borneo twice a year.
English speaking missionaries being desired in the British part of Borneo, the Propaganda (19 Mareh, 1881) confided the mission of North Borneo and Labuan to the Soeiety for Foreign Missions of Mill-hill, England.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/02687a.htm   (843 words)

  
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