KALIMANTAN

Kalimantan (toponyms: is the world's third largest island located in the northern island of Java and the west of the island of Sulawesi. island of Borneo is divided into regions of Brunei, Indonesia (two thirds) and Malaysia (one third). island of Borneo known by the nickname "Island of a Thousand Rivers" because many rivers in this island. In ancient times, Borneo - which comes from the name of the sultanate of Brunei - is the name used by the colonial British and the Dutch to call this island as a whole, while Kalimantan is the name used by the inhabitants of the island's eastern region that now includes parts of Indonesia. [6] [7] the northern region of this island (Sabah, Brunei, Sarawak) in the Indonesian language formerly known as North Borneo, but in terms of North Borneo is now the northern part of East Kalimantan. In a broad sense "Borneo" covers the entire island is also known as Borneo, while in the narrow sense refers only Kalimantan region of Indonesia.The origins of the name of Borneo are not so clear. Kelamantan term used to describe a group in Sarawak who ate sago population in the north of the island. According Crowfurd, said Kalimantan is the name of a type of mango (Mangifera) so that the island of Borneo is the island of mango, but he added that the word does not smell of fairy tales and popular. Local mango called klemantan this until now widely available in rural areas and surrounding Ketapang, West Kalimantan.

According to C. Hose and Mac Dougall, "Borneo" is derived from the names of the six classes of the local tribes of the Iban (Sea Dayak), Kayan, Kenyah, Klemantan (Land Dayak), Murut, and Punan. In his essay, Natural Man, A Record from Borneo (1926), Hose explained that Klemantan is the new name used by the Malays. But according to Slamet Muljana, said not a word of Borneo native Malay loan words as well but said Malaya, who came from India melayu (Malay which means mountain).Another opinion says that of Borneo or Klemantan derived from the Sanskrit, Kalamanthana the island where the air is very hot or burning (cal: season, time and Manthan: burn). Because a vocal on stage and according to the custom Manthana not spoken, then uttered Kalmantan Kalamanthana then called native or Quallamontan Klemantan which eventually revealed to be Kalimantan. There are three major kingdoms (the parent) on the island of Borneo (Brunei / Barune) , Succadana (Tanjungpura / Bakulapura), and Banjarmasinn (Nusa Kencana). Eastern population of this island called Pulu K'lemantan, the Italians and Ukrainians know Calemantan: Калімантан. If judging from the language of Java, Kalimantan's name may mean "River Diamonds". Throughout its history, Metro is also known by other names. Singasari kingdom, for example, called it "Bakulapura" the colony is located in southwestern Borneo. Bakula tree in Sanskrit means headland (Mimusops elengi) so Bakulapura got a Malay name "Tanjungpura" shall mean the land / tree island promontory that is the name of the royal Tanjungpura is often used as the name of the island. While the Kingdom of Majapahit in the Kakawin Nagarakretagama written in 1365 called "Tanjungnagara" which also includes such well Saludung Philippines (Manila) and the Sulu archipelago.Saga Banjar, an ancient chronicle of South Kalimantan last chapter was written in 1663, but the script itself Banjar Tale comes from the manuscript with the text of a more ancient Malay kingdom on the Hindu, in it called the island of Borneo to the Malay name of the island "Hujung ground ". This land Hujung designation appears on the form of geomorphology of South Kalimantan region in ancient times in the form of a peninsula formed by a row of Meratus Mountains jutting into the Java Sea. This situation is identical to the shape of the tip of the State of Johor Straits is often called the "tip of the Land" in ancient Malay manuscripts. Peninsula Land is a bersetentangan Hujung with the Majapahit in East Java that then gets Tanjungnagara name means island-shaped headland / peninsula.The term "Golden Nusa" is the name of the island of Borneo in the ancient Javanese texts such as the prediction of the kingdom of King Jayabaya Kadiri (Panjalu), about to be mastered by the Japanese Javanese soil coming from the Nusa Kencana. It is evident before crossing over to Java, the Japanese army first master was the capital of Borneo Banjarmasin. Nusa often described as the Golden Land is a manifestation of Interior Sabrang Alengka the primitive abode of the giants on the other side of Java. In the Land of Land Dayak Sabrang there is mentioned in the Maha Parwa Fibers.ther titles include: "Island of the Banjar", Raden Paku (later known as Sunan Giri) is reported to have spread Islam to the island of Banjar, as well as the designation by the Gowa, Selaparang (Lombok), Sumbawa and Bima for the kingdoms of this bilateral relationship with the Sultanate of Banjar; "Big Java" name of Italian explorer Marco Polo or in Arabic; and "Jaba Daje" meaning "Java in the North (from the island of Madura) Madurese designation of a new island of Borneo in the 20th century