Spice Islands
Proper noun
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Proper noun
- The Moluccas or Maluku Islands, an archipelago in Indonesia comprising the provinces of Maluku and North Maluku.
- 2006, Susheela Raghavan, Handbook of Spices, Seasonings, and Flavorings, 2nd Edition, page 8 ↗,
- The Portuguese established trading ports at Goa, India, and Sri Lanka and moved farther east to Malacca, Malaysia, and the Spice Islands (the Moluccas) bringing back pepper, cloves, nutmeg, and mace.
- 2010, Charles Edward Miller Pearce, Frances M. Pearce, Oceanic Migration, page 4 ↗,
- Halmahera is the largest of the Spice Islands. In contexts involving foreign exploitation of spices, the term Spice Islands sometimes refers only to the five tiny clove-growing islands that lie off the western coast of Halmahera.
- 2006, Susheela Raghavan, Handbook of Spices, Seasonings, and Flavorings, 2nd Edition, page 8 ↗,
- The Zanzibar Archipelago, in the Zanzibar semi-autonomous region of Tanzania.
- 2008, Andrew Young, Memoirs of a World Traveler, Volume 1: Journeys of a Lifetime, page 170 ↗,
- I decided to prolong my stay in the Spice Islands until the upcoming Zanzibar Cultural Festival and International Film Festival, before heading back to Nairobi.
- 2008, Andrew Young, Memoirs of a World Traveler, Volume 1: Journeys of a Lifetime, page 170 ↗,
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