In his 1869 book, The Malay Archipelago , Wallace described numerous species unique to the area.

Champa also had close trade and cultural relations with the powerful maritime empire of Srivijaya and later with the Majapahit of the Malay Archipelago.

For a long time the Malay Archipelago was ruled by animism the believe in spirits and people tended to associate almost anything with the spiritual world including nature.

The vast majority of these were Malay households.

Together they form the Archipelago Sea.

The island attracted Chinese and Malay traders in the fifteenth century.

Malay politicians have learned how to play this card very effectively.

Malay Muslims in Thailand s southern provinces are demanding their own political space.

Together they are often known as the Japanese Archipelago.

The other major island of the archipelago is Singkep.

But after the battle, the remaining ships' masters refused to free the Malay.

To the east is the island of Alor and other small islands in the archipelago to the west is the Alor Strait, which separates it from the Solor Archipelago.

It has often been described as an archipelago of 16 islands.

It is situated amongst the islands of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

During the invasions he managed to mobilize vessels from Javanese coastal cities to Malay Peninsula.

The other main islands in the archipelago are Kobroor, Kola and Maikoor.

All attempts to reduce Malay influence serve to mobilize this community in both ethnic and religious terms.

As a result, many Malay Muslims increasingly worry about the loss of familiar economic and political safeguards.

Singapore lost its hinterland and was no longer the administrative or economic capital of the Malay Peninsula.

The trivial solution is to create really large protected areas like the Chagos Archipelago.

Joint exploration and development of the resources within and beneath the archipelago could then begin.

Finally, higher up the Caribbean archipelago, in December 2011, TEDxSanJuan was about to its mark.

Kakskerta is an island in the Archipelago Sea, south of the city of Turku, Finland.

Alor is the largest island in the archipelago which is located at its eastern end.

The objective of the note is to recognize Venezuela's sovereignty over the Los Monjes archipelago.

In 1973, he founded and directed the Institute of Malay Language, Literature, and Culture (IBKKM) at the new University.

The Mohammad Noah Foundation Mosque (Malay Masjid Yayasan Mohammad Noah ) is the only mosque in Genting Highlands, Pahang, Malaysia.

Malay participation in the mining sector was minimal, and as much as 70 of the industry remained under foreign control.

With the creation of the Nunavut in 1999 all islands and fractions of islands of the archipelago east of the 110th meridian west became part of Qikiqtaaluk Region of the new territory, which was the major portion of the archipelago.

It is located in the north west of the archipelago, 350 km to the east of Tahiti.

The Bocas del Toro Archipelago is a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea in northwest Panama.

Bahrain is an archipelago made up of 33 natural islands and a number of man made ones.

The military s belief that Malay Muslims could be re educated and re socialized into accepting a Thai identity has proved untenable.

It is in area and contains the largest settlement of the territory, Bantam, with a population of about 500 Cocos Malay people.

Off the Southern California coast the Channel Islands archipelago of the Santa Monica Mountains extends for 160 miles.

The Territory comprises a group of 50 islands that form an archipelago with the United States Virgin Islands.

The Al Muktafi Billah Shah Mosque (Malay Masjid Al Muktafi Billah Shah or Masjid Ladang ) is the modern royal mosque of Terengganu, Malaysia.

Before the Suez Canal was opened in 1869, the Indonesian archipelago was reached via the Sunda Strait from Africa.

There might also be some issues of sovereignty and of self determination in connection with the Chagos archipelago issue.

On April 28, 2004, the insurgents primary targets were Buddhist members of the security forces, but most of those who died were Malay Muslims.

The Saidina Abu Bakar As Siddiq Mosque (MSABA) (Malay Masjid Saidina Abu Bakar As Siddiq) is a prominent mosque in Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The lake holds Ometepe and Zapatera which are both volcanic islands, as well as the archipelago of the Solentiname Islands.

It is part of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, and had a population of 114 in 2001, all in Sachs Harbour.

Other gateways are the Barents Sea Opening (BSO), the Bering Strait and various small channels in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

The Swedish map made the islands appear to be closer to the mainland of Sweden than to Finland the Finnish map stressed the continuity of the archipelago between the main island and mainland Finland, while a greater gap appeared between the islands and the archipelago on the Swedish side.