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Encyclopedia Britannica



KRAWANG

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 925 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: KHA-KRI
KRAWANG , a residency of the island of Java, Dutch
East
  Indies, bounded E. and S. by CharibGn and the Preanger, W. by Batavia, and N. by the Java Sea, and comprising a few insignificant islands. The natives are Sundanese, but contain a large admixture of Middle Javanese and Bantamers in the north, where they established colonies in the 17th century. Like the residency of Batavia, the northern half of Krawang is flat and occasionally marshy, while the southern half is mountainous and volcanic. Warm and cold
mineral
 , salt and
sulphur
  springs occur in the hills. Salt is extracted by the government, though in smaller quantities now than formerly. The principal products are
rice
 , coffee, sugar, vanilla, indigo and nutmeg. Fishing is practised along the coast and forest culture in the hills, while the
industries
  also include the manufacture of coarse linen, sacks and leather tanning. Gold and silver were formerly thought to be hidden in the Parang mountain in the Gandasoli
district
 
south
 -west of Purwakarta, and mining was begun by the Dutch
East
  India Company in 1722. The largest part of the residency consists of private lands, and only the Purwakarta and Krawang divisions forming the middle and north-west sections come directly under government
control
 . The remainder of the residency is divided between the Pamanukan-Chiasem lands occupying - the whole eastern half of the residency and the Tegalwaru lands in the
south
 -western corner. The former is owned by a company and forms the largest estate in Java. The Tegalwaru is chiefly owned by Chinese proprietors. Purwakarta is the
capital
  of the residency. Subang and Pamanukan both lie at the junction of several roads near the borders of Cheribon and are the
chief
  centres of activity in the east of the residency.


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