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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of western Borneo, Indonesia, at the northern edge of the Kapuas River delta. Capital of a sultanate founded in 1772, it is a trading center in an agricultural region.
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Examples
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That night I stayed in Pontianak which is bisected by the Equator.
Flash-lights from the Seven Seas Francis John McConnell 1917
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The buyers come from cities outside Jakarta such as Pontianak, Bali and Samarinda.
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"Singapore-born filmmaker Djinn, 38, made his feature debut with the horror cheapie Return to Pontianak (2001), which was successful enough to allow him to direct the much more polished, more mature Perth, recently released on DVD by Tartan Video."
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The Army carried some 16,000 Madurese by convoy to safety in the provincial capital of Pontianak, leaving behind troubling questions.
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She adventured among the Dyaks, and journeyed westward to Pontianak, and the diamond mines of Landak.
The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands Anonymous
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Then they are coming around the western corner of Borneo; they took Pontianak the other day.
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Kuching, the capital of Sarawak, although smaller than Pontianak and other Dutch settlements on the coast of Borneo, is generally acknowledged to be the first town in Borneo so far as civilisation and comfort are concerned, and is renowned for its Bazaar, which is the best-built and cleanest in the island.
On the Equator Harry De Windt 1894
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Pontianak, the well-known town in the Western Division of Dutch Borneo, is the name of another good-looking female antoh, who causes injury to women at childbirth.
Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 Carl Lumholtz 1886
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She adventured among the Dyaks, and journeyed westward to Pontianak, and the diamond mines of Landak.
The Story of Ida Pfeiffer Anonymous 1879
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The men who were saved gave details of the taking of two large vessels -- one a Singapore prahu trading to Tringanau; the other a Dutch tope, of one hundred and fifty tons, on the coast of Borneo to the south of Pontianak.
Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak Henriette McDougall 1851
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