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Bali Through the Ages
Bali is a tropical island, eight degrees south of the equator in the heart of the Indonesian archipelago. Because of its history, rich culture and art – dance, sculpture and painting – beautiful beaches, nature and tropical climate, Bali is considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth. Thank you to its many temples and pagodas is also known as “island of thousand temples”. The capital is Denpasar and his motorcycle “Bali dwipa Jaya” – “. The island of Bali to success”
The island is 153 km and 112 km wide, with a total area of 5,633 km2. The town of Ubud, west of Denpasar, is considered the cultural center of Bali with its many shops, museums and galleries.
Compared to Indonesia, Islamic, Bali is distinguished by ethnicity, culture and religion. Island population of about three million, eighty-three percent of them are Hindi and the rest are Muslims. The interesting fact is that, unlike India, the cow is a sacred animal here. The city of Kuta, Sanur, Djibaran, Nusa Dua and the new Seminiak are major tourist attractions.
The Balinese are descendants of tribes coming from Asia to the Indonesian archipelago in the 25th century BC. In the 5th century BC, an independent Buddhist kingdom established on the island until the 11th century BC, when Bali was conquered by the Kingdom of the Hindi Madjapahit island of Java using a true marriage between the King and Princess of East Java Bali Udajana Mahendradata. This union has joined Hindu and budhism, mixing primitive and animistic beliefs personified by the gods of our ancestors.
First Europeans to discover Bali in 1597 when the Portuguese ship of the Dutch adventurer Cornelius Houtman anchored on the banks of the Bukit. After several successive wars (1846-1849), the Dutch finally conquered the island. During the Second World War was invaded by Japan and became part of the Eastern Republic of Indonesia, later known as Indonesia States. In 1965, supporters of the Communist Party was brutally murdered after a botched attempt to overthrow the government. On October 12, 2002, a bomb killed 202 people, mostly tourists in the town of Kuta.
Today Bali is famous for her dances from Bali, scluptures, paintings and wood carvings. The languages most often used on the Indonesian island of Bali, and although most sculpturestion speak English because many tourists. After all, Bali has been awarded the Best Island Travel & Leisure for 2010 adopted by the U.S. magazine Travel and Leisure.
