Sumbawa, one of the Sunda Islands, lying between Lombok (W.) and Flores (E.); mountainous and dangerously volcanic; yields rice, tobacco, cotton, &c.; is divided among four native rulers under Dutch authority.
Population (circa 1900) given as 150,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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