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Banda Neira is the only settlement of significant size on any of the Banda Islands, located in the Maluku province of Indonesia. The town is located on the central island of the Bandas group, Banda Neira, the only one of the islands with enough flat space to allow a small town. Located in Bandanaira are government offices, stores, a wharf, and almost half of the archipelago's 14,000 population. Banda Neira was once the global center of the trade in nutmeg and mace, as the Bandas Islands were the only source of these valuable spices until the mid-19th century. The modern town was established by members of the Dutch East India Company as the capital of the Governorate of the Banda Islands. The Dutch forced out or exterminated most of the native Bandanese in order to exploit this lucrative resource. File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Kustgezicht met vissersboot met op de achtergrond de Vuurberg Bandanaira TMnr 10021959.jpg|Vuurberg (Dutch: fire mountain), Gunung Api, in Bandanaira]] File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Gezicht op Bandanaira Molukken TMnr 10014656.jpg|View of Bandanaira during the 2nd half of the 19th century File:Bandaneira-0039.JPG|Banda Neira in the late 1990s viewed from Gunung Api ==See also== * Run (island) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Banda Neira」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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