Comments on: Region and Street Names in Dutch East Indies

By: calvinms

calvinms — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 02:36:28 +0000

random googling

By: boy

boy — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 02:15:55 +0000

interesting article.where did you get this info?

By: calvinms

calvinms — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:29:35 +0000

it’s also interesting to note there is a region still named “Glenmore” in Banyuwangi, though the name was Irish origin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenmore_(subdistrict)

By: colson

colson — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:37:06 +0000

Interesting. Fun.

Especially Jalan Iman Bonjol did strike a note.

Oranje Nassau is. as you may know, the core family name of the founding father of the protestant republic of the Netherlands in the sixteenth century.

I guess Willem van Oranje Nassau would have liked the irony that ‘his’ boulevard now carries the name of an iman.

The Oranje’s family name is in the name of the street I’m living at also by the way: Oranje Nassaulaan.