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Example sentences for: sumatra

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By 1500, Melaka had become the leading port in Southeast Asia, drawing Chinese, Indian, Javanese, and Arab merchants away from the hitherto vital port of Pasai in Sumatra.
Srivijaya, most powerful of the Indianized colonies and a center of Buddhist learning, built a maritime empire from its base on the island of Sumatra.
He served as lieutenant-governor in Java and Sumatra, during which time he wrote a History of Java.
Shops take advantage of the tourist traffic to sell the products of other islands, too — embroidery and songket fabrics from Sumatra, primitive art from Irian Jaya, and silver from Sulawesi.
Meanwhile, fresh blood came in with the migration into the southern interior of hardy Minangkabau farmers from Sumatra, while tough Bugis warriors from the east Indonesian Celebes (Sulawesi) roved the length and breadth of the peninsula.