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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benkulen 'Bengkulu'], ''Wikipedia''.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benkulen 'Bengkulu'], ''Wikipedia''.
Article in the ''Asiatic Journal'', Volume 13, January-June 1822. ''A Succinct Historical Narrative of the East India Company’s Endeavours to Form Settlements and to Extend and Encourage Trade in the East and of the Causes by which those Endeavours have been Frustrated''.  Section 1 Sumatra, Borneo, Java, the Eastern Islands, etc . [http://books.google.com/books?id=zXiILz2MABEC&pg=PA1 pages 1-11] Other Sections [http://books.google.com/books?id=zXiILz2MABEC&pg=PA11 page 11],
[http://books.google.com/books?id=zXiILz2MABEC&pg=PA105], [http://books.google.com/books?id=zXiILz2MABEC&pg=PA209]


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[[Category:Locations]]

Revision as of 11:29, 12 August 2009

Bencoolen
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Presidency:
Coordinates: -3.8, 102.25
Altitude:
Present Day Details
Place Name: Benkulen City
State/Province: Benkulen
Country: Indonesia
Transport links

A settlement originally estalished in 1685 by the East India Company on the south side of the island of Sumatra, following the expulsion of the EIC from Bantam by the Dutch. In 1714, the EIC built Fort Marlborough to protect its interests.

In 1825, the EIC exchanged Benkulen with the Dutch for Malacca which was more strategically useful to the British. Benkulen remained a Dutch possession until after World War 2.

Spelling Variants

Modern name: Bengkulu
Variants: Benkulen, Bencoolen


Records

Ecclesiastical Returns: Baptisms, Marriages and Burials. Fort Marlborough [Bencoolen, Sumatra] 1759-1825, British Library reference IOR N/7.

External links

'Benkulen', The British Empire.

'Bengkulu', Wikipedia.

Article in the Asiatic Journal, Volume 13, January-June 1822. A Succinct Historical Narrative of the East India Company’s Endeavours to Form Settlements and to Extend and Encourage Trade in the East and of the Causes by which those Endeavours have been Frustrated. Section 1 Sumatra, Borneo, Java, the Eastern Islands, etc . pages 1-11 Other Sections page 11, [1], [2]