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Sunda Kingdoms of West Java, The : From Tarumanagara to Pakuan Pajajaran with the Royal Center of Bogor
Outline: The author dedicates this strikingly illustrated book to the Sunda people and to those interested in Sundanese history and archaeology. The book endeavors to bring back the spirit of the great history of West Java experienced from the time of Tarumanegara Kingdom in the early fifth century AD to the time of Pakuan Pajajaran Kingdom in the fifteenth early and sixteenth century. Now known as Bogor, this area of Sunda culture has always been a Royal center of a high culture, which provided the very first inscriptions (prasasti) ever found on the island of Java. The book contains 3 maps and 56 excellent photographs of nearly all of the remaining artifacts from this long period of more than 1000 years, many of them depicted in the print media for the first time. They provide glimpses of history. To allow uninterrupted and pleasant reading, no direct references are made to the original historical sources within the text. Instead, all literature sources are listed in the bibliography.
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