Why is Singapore Called "Singapore" - Indies Gallery Catalogue 2021
Why is Singapore called “Singapore” - A Story Told in Maps by Eric Rosenkranz. The map collection of Sake Rudmer Santema.
Why is Singapore called “Singapore” - A Story Told in Maps by Eric Rosenkranz. The map collection of Sake Rudmer Santema.
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It turns out that maps of the last few<br />
hundred years tell a different story. From<br />
them, we can see that the <strong>is</strong>land had a<br />
different name before it was named<br />
“<strong>Singapore</strong>” and that it was the waterways<br />
around the <strong>is</strong>land that first carried th<strong>is</strong><br />
d<strong>is</strong>tinctive name.<br />
Our journey begins in the early 1500s when<br />
European explorers first started sailing to<br />
Asia from the west. Th<strong>is</strong> 1522 map by<br />
Laurent Fries has written at the foot of<br />
South East Asia the word “Bar mingapara”.<br />
An earlier version by another cartographer<br />
writes the name “Bar Xingapara”. Other<br />
maps of the same era write at th<strong>is</strong> area<br />
“Gimgaparaa” and “Samgapura”.
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