Ujung Pandang

Ujung Pandang

Ujung Pandang , formerly Makasar , city (1990 pop. 944,685), SW Sulawesi, capital of Sulawesi Selatan prov., Indonesia. The largest city in Sulawesi, it is one of Indonesia's important seaports, a distribution and transshipment point for goods from Europe and Asia. Exports include coffee, teak, spices, copra, rubber, rattan, and gums and resins. The city is also a commercial center, with a large central market. Industries include the manufacture of cement and paper and the assembly of automobiles. Once a center of spice smuggling, Ujung Pandang was a thriving port when the Portuguese arrived (16th cent.). The Dutch supplanted the Portuguese, triumphing over the indigenous sultan in 1667. Ujung Pandang became a free port in 1848. It is the seat of several universities. In World War II, Makasar Strait (between Borneo and Sulawesi) was the scene of a Japanese naval defeat.

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Ujungpandang, Sulawesi/Indonesia Makasar, Fort Rotterdam Originally named after the Makasserese, the present name was adopted in 1971 to draw attention to Fort Ujung Pandang, which had been built in 1545 and in which the Javan independence hero, Prince Diponegoro, had been imprisoned for 27 years. He died here in exile in 1855. It became Fort Rotterdam in 1667 after it had been captured by the Dutch. On the south‐west coast of Sulawei's south‐western peninsula, the name comes from ujung ‘at the extremity of’. An oil that was applied to people's hair came from Makassar and to prevent it soiling the backs of chairs a cover—an antimacassar—was placed over them.

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