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February 2nd, 2010 - 4:37 pm § in Uncategorized

Etymology of Indonesia

The name Indonesia derives from the Latin Indus, meaning “India”, and the Greek nesos, meaning “island”.[6] The name dates to the 18th century, far predating the formation of independent Indonesia.[7] In 1850, George Earl, an English ethnologist, proposed the terms Indunesian[...]