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
However, extremists attacked Dutch soldiers at Buitenzorg, and the mother country had a few extremists of its own.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the afternoon of the day of his arrival, a Sunday, having declined a kind invitation to a party for the theatre, X. decided to leave for Buitenzorg.
From From Jungle to Java The Trivial Impressions of a Short Excursion to Netherlands India by Arthur Louis Keyser
Bogor is the native name of Buitenzorg, in Java, which contains the governor-general's palace.
From Small Souls by Louis Couperus
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