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Buitenzorg

British  
/ ˈbœitənzɔrx /

noun

  1. the former name of Bogor

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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

At seven in the morning there came a crash so formidable, that those who had hoped for a little sleep at Buitenzorg leaped from their beds.

From Volcanoes: Past and Present by Hull, Edward

We have already said that the ride over the Poentjak Pass should be avoided and the train taken from Buitenzorg to Tjiandjoer.

From Across the Equator A Holiday Trip in Java by Reid, Thomas H.