Buitenzorg
Britishnoun
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Jacob Luitjens was born April 18, 1919, in Buitenzorg, in what was then the Dutch East Indies, now Bogor on the Indonesian island of Java.
From Washington Post • Dec. 20, 2022
The real power rests in a tropical palace at Buitenzorg, outside Batavia, where lives His Excellency Jonkheer A.W.L.
From Time Magazine Archive
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However, extremists attacked Dutch soldiers at Buitenzorg, and the mother country had a few extremists of its own.
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We made several excursions in addition to this while at Buitenzorg, but none worthy of record.
From On the Equator by De Windt, Harry
The train left Batavia at 4.30 and X. reached Buitenzorg at six.
From From Jungle to Java The Trivial Impressions of a Short Excursion to Netherlands India by Keyser, Arthur Louis
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