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Malaya

noun
1.
A constitutional monarchy in southeastern Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1957.  Synonym: Malaysia.



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"Malaya" Quotes from Famous Books



... so carefully tended in their youth, has sprung the whole rubber industry of Ceylon and the Far East. Wickham must indeed have been proud to see the plantations spreading from Ceylon to Malaya, where rubber was eagerly taken up by planters who were despairing of ever making a living out of coffee, and later to Sumatra and Java and Borneo. To-day rubber plantations cover an area of over 3,000,000 acres, with a yearly output of almost 360,000 tons, or about ten times the average ...
— The Romance of Rubber • United States Rubber Company
... Finnish villages scattered over the present site of St. Petersburg, as designated by the maps of the Swedes, whom Peter the Great—practically Russia's second patron saint—expelled anew when he captured their thriving commercial town, on the shore of the Neva, directly opposite, now known as Malaya Okhta, possessed of extensive foreign trade, and of a church older than the capital, which recently celebrated ...
— Russian Rambles • Isabel F. Hapgood


Words linked to "Malaya" :   Jemaah Islamiyah, JI, Indochina, Putrajaya, al-Ma'unah, Asian nation, Malaysia Militant Group, Malaysian, Malaysian Mujahidin Group, Malayan, Indochinese peninsula, Asian country, Islamic Group, West Malaysia, godown, capital of Malaysia, Malaysia, East Malaysia, ASEAN, Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Islamic Community, Malay


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