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Authors: Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Tags: #Fiction, #Historical, #Literary

Footsteps (69 page)

teukoe
An Acehnese title for a traditional leader, sometimes translated as “prince”
Tjoet Nya Dhin
A heroine of the Aceh War, the woman who led the Acehnese guerrillas in the last phase of the war against the Dutch; she was captured and exiled to West Java in 1910 and died a year later.
tuan
Malay word meaning “master” or “sir”
warung
Small shop, booth, or stall
wayang
Shadow puppets
wedana
The head of a municipality, one of the lower administrative positions
Marie van Zeggelen
Marie van Zeggelen went on to write a number of books sympathetic to the Natives’ struggle for freedom; these included
A Biography of Kartini
(1908), a book on the struggle of the Buginese,
De Onderworpenen (The Vanquished), Gouden Keris (Golden Keris)
, and
Oude Glorie (The Golden Age)
, about Aceh during its heyday in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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