Palembang City is the oldest city in Indonesia was at least 1382 years if based Srivijaya inscription inscription known as the Mount Position. According to the inscription that dates to June 16 682. At that time the ruler of Srivijaya was founded Wanua in the area now known as the city of Palembang. According to the topography, the city is surrounded by water, even submerged by water. Water is sourced either from rivers or swamps, as well as rainwater. Even today the city of Palembang, there are still 52.24% of land are inundated by water (data of Statistics 1990). Likely due to this condition then the ancestors of the people of this city named this city as Pa-Pa dent in the Malay language as a word or Pe designate a place or situation, while coquettish meaning hollow or low ground, the valley swollen with long roots submerged in water (according to Malay dictionary), whereas according to the Malay-language Palembang, dented or coquettish is a puddle of water. So Palembang is a place flooded by water.
This natural condition for the ancestors of the people of Palembang into their capital to exploit it. Water becomes a vital means of transportation, economical, efficient and have coverage and have a high speed. In addition to natural conditions, is also a strategic location of this city who are in a network capable of controlling the traffic between the three territorial unity:
High ground of West Sumatra, namely: Bukit Barisan Mountains.
Foothills or Piedmont region and meeting the kids of the river as he entered the lowlands.
Northeastern seaboard.
All three territorial integrity is a very local factors in pattern formation locate the bad culture that is civilization. Local factors that form a network and commodities with high-frequency have been formed earlier and managed to encourage local people to create the growth pattern of high culture in South Sumatra. Local factor is what makes the capital of Srivijaya Palembang, which is a political and economic power in the classical age in Southeast Asia. Sriwijaya glory taken by the Sultanate of Palembang Darussalam Sultanate at the time as a respected middle area of the archipelago
1256976844.jpgSriwijaya, as well as other forms of government in Southeast Asia at that time, the shape is known as port-polity. Understanding Port-polity simply began as a redistribution center, which gradually took over some form of increased progress contained in the broad spectrum. Growth center of a Polity is entreport generating additional wealth and cultural contacts. These results were obtained by local leaders. (In terms of Sriwijaya was called the datu), the result is the basis for the use of economic power and political control in Southeast Asia.
There are interesting posts from Chronic China Chu-Fan-Chi written by Chau Ju-Kua in the 14th century, tells of Srivijaya as follows: The country is situated in the southern Sea, control of traffic in the Strait of foreign trade. In ancient times the port using an iron chain to hold the pirates who intend evil. If there is foreign boats coming, the chain was lowered. Once the situation is safe again, the chain was removed. The boats passing by without stopping dipelabuhan surrounded by boats and attacked the royal property. All crew-boat crews brave death. That is why the country into a shipping center.
Surely many more stories, legends and even myths about Sriwijaya. China's foreign sailors such as Chinese, Arabs and Persians, which records all the stories perisitiwa whenever they see and with. If the sailors Arabs and Persians, describes the state of the Musi river, which Palembang is located, is like a city in Tiggris. Palembang city they are portrayed very large city, where if you enter the city, the crow of roosters do not stop bersahut-replication (within the meaning of the cock crowing to follow the rising sun). Stories of their journey filled with magic night 1001. Sailors China recorded more realistic about the city of Palembang, where they saw how kehiduapan city dwellers who live on rafts free of tax. As for the leader of home life dry ground above the colonnaded house. They spell the name of Palembang in accordance with their tongues and their script. Palembang referred to or spoken of them as Po-lin-fong or Ku-kang (meaning old port). After experiencing the glory-century century-7 and 9, the 12th-century dikurun Sriwijaya decay slowly. The collapse of Srivijaya, both because of competition with the kingdom in Java, the battle with the royal Cola from India and last fall was inevitable after the rise of the rise of Islamic kingdoms in the archipelago. Islamic kingdoms that had a small part of the kingdom of Srivijaya, developed into a great empire like those in Aceh and Peninsular Malaysia.
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