Amboyna, with a chief city of the name, the most important of the Moluccas, in the Malay Archipelago, and rich before all in spices; it belongs to the Dutch, who have diligently fostered its capabilities.
Population (circa 1900) given as 238,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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