YOGYAKARTA "City of Art and Culture" Java Island, Indonesia

Indonesia, where everything was cheap - Yogyakarta (often Jogja, Yogyakarta or Yogya called) is in the middle of the island of Java. Days you can sit 200rb enough, eat traditional cuisine famous and hire bicycles to explore the beaches are clean and ancient temples thousands of years.

A thousand years ago, London was the center of the Mataram kingdom old and has a great flourishing civilization. Who founded the Buddhist temple of Borobudur is the kingdom, the largest in the world, 300 years before Angkor Wat in Cambodia. Other relics are the temple of Prambanan, Ratu Boko Palace, and dozens of other temples have been restored and are still buried under the earth (see Tour-Temple).

But for some mysterious reason moved Old Mataram Kingdom central government to East Java in the 10th Century. Magnificent temples were abandoned and partly buried by the eruption of Mount Merapi materials. Yogyakarta area slowly came back into the dense forest.

Six hundred years later, Islamic Mataram kingdom Panembahan Senopati to establish in this region. Also, the Yogyakarta kingdom history to witness the grand master Java and beyond. Islamic Mataram empire left behind a trail to the ruins of the castle and royal tombs in the city now than silver center in Yogyakarta History known.

The name Yogyakarta from two words, namely Ayogya which means "peace" means (or without war, a "no", referring to Yogya or yodya yudha that "war" means), and the Karta, meaning "good." Tread the palace of Yogyakarta, according to the Chronicle (eg Giyanti Chronicle) and leluri (oral history), the shape of a palace called Dalem Gerjiwati, then repeated by Sunan called Pakubuwana II Dalem Ayogya

 

Precursor of Yogyakarta Kotagede the region, now part of Yogyakarta. The first ruler of the Islamic Mataram Palace, Panembahan Senapati (Sutawijaya) established in a scene that is part of the forest Mentaok (based on Mentaok). This complex is now the oldest surviving building as part of a stone fortress, mosques and cemeteries. , After moving twice (in the palace and the palace Kerta Pleret, both located in Bantul district), the seat of government of the Sultanate of Mataram Kartasura switch.

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