Djawa


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Djawa

(ˈdʒɑːvə)
n
(Placename) the former spelling of Java1
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Liberal-leaning Willem Bosch, widely regarded as the founder of the Dokter Djawa School (School for Educating Native Physicians, established in the Dutch East Indies in 1851) noted that leprosy was correlated to widespread poverty and was responsible for impeding the demographic growth of Java (p.
The hosts broke the deadlock seven minutes into the second half as Max Djawa surged forward inside the box and smashed the ball past Junjun Badelic.
Gumatj leader, Djawa Yunupingu, a senior Gumatj leader, said it was time to allow communities to regain the authority for their own land.
These views began appearing in the newspapers that cropped up in 1869 such as Mataharie, Selompret Melaju in 1888 followed by Bintang Soerabaia in 1887 (Watson 424), Bintang Betawi (1905) and many more (Adam 77) with Tionghoa peranakan newspapers such as Djawa Tengah (1901) and Sin Po (1910) (Ali 146).
-LOGAM DJAWA, PT (Aluminum, Kitchenware & Metal tableware)
Since 2000, Gumbula has worked on the Donald Thomson Collection at Museum Victoria in Melbourne, which dates from the late 1930s (Thomson 2004), and in which his father, Djawa, and father's father, Darritjnarritj, are well represented.
(75) Conversation with Joe Golumala, son of Djawa, Melbourne, 2003.