North Maluku

Indonesia

North Maluku shares 94 connections with 11300 other places across 17 topics, spanning colonial history, World War II, and regional governance. Ternate and Tidore, neighboring island sultanates, figure prominently: explorer Francisco Serrão led the first Portuguese arrival at Ternate in 1512, and Tidore became a VOC vassal in 1780, after which the Tidorese prince Nuku led a successful anti-Dutch rebellion lasting until 1805. The region also holds a World War II thread: Private Teruo Nakamura, the last Japanese holdout, surrendered there in December 1974.

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