Banjarmasin

British

/ ˌbændʒəˈmɑːsɪn /

noun

Former spelling: Bandjarmasin. Bandjermasin. a port in Indonesia, in SW Borneo. Pop: 527 415 (2000)

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Rescued passengers were picked up by tugboats and taken to Banjarmasin in South Kalimantan and Jeneponto in South Sulawesi, South Sulawesi search and rescue agency chief Djunaidi said on Saturday.

From Reuters • May 28, 2022

A burnt land is pictured next to palm oil plantation near Banjarmasin in South Kalimantan province, Indonesia, September 29, 2019.

From Reuters • Apr. 20, 2022

The sovereignty of Banjarmasin is said in olden times to have extended over all of southeastern Borneo.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XLIII, 1670-1700 by Various

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