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
However, extremists attacked Dutch soldiers at Buitenzorg, and the mother country had a few extremists of its own.
From Time Magazine Archive
The real power rests in a tropical palace at Buitenzorg, outside Batavia, where lives His Excellency Jonkheer A.W.L.
From Time Magazine Archive
Vanity was born in her blood and had been nourished at Batavia and Buitenzorg, where she was made much of as the young daughter of the governor-general.
From Small Souls by Couperus, Louis
General Janssens made his escape to Buitenzorg, thirty miles distant, with a few cavalrymen and the remnants of his army of 13,000 men.
From Across the Equator A Holiday Trip in Java by Reid, Thomas H.
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