Medan

Medan (; pronoonced ) is the caipital o the North Sumatra province in Indonesie. Locatit on the northren coast, Medan is the fowert maistmuckle city in Indonesie (ahint Jakarta, Surabaya, an Bandung), an the mucklest Indonesian city ootside Java. The city is mairched bi the Deli Serdang Regency tae the east, sooth an wast, an the Strait o Malacca tae the north. It is close tae the volcano Sinabung, that eruptit in August 2010 efter a 400 year dormant state.

 History 
Medan stairtit as a veelage cried Kampung Medan (Medan Veelage). Kampung Medan wis foondit bi Guru Patimpus aroond the 1590s. Acause Kampung Medan sits on Tanah Deli (Land o Deli), Kampung Medan is referred tae as Medan-Deli an aa. The original location o Kampung Medan is an area whaur the Deli River meets the Babura River.
Based on the diary o the Portuguese merchant in early 16t century, it statit that the name o Medan wis actually derived frae Medina whilk is actually a holy city in the wastren pairt o Saudi Arabie. But, ither soorces indicatit that the name o Medan actually cam frae Indian Hindi leid wird "Maidan" meanin "grund" or "land" (lik in Pragati Maidan in Delhi). Ane o the Karo-Indonesia dictionar scrieved bi Darwin Prinst SH published in 2002 wrote that Medan coud be defined as "recover" or "be better" an aa.

The first indwallers o Medan cam frae the Malay frae the Malay Peninsular. It wisnae till the Sultan o Aceh, Sultan Iskandar Muda, sent his warlord, Gocah Pahlawan Laksamana Khoja Bintan, tae be the Sultanate o Aceh's representative in Tanah Deli, that the Sultanate o Deli stairtit tae grow. This growthe stimulatit growthe in baith the population an cultur o Medan. In the seicont yeir reign o Sultan Deli (atween 1669–1698), thare wis a cavalry battle in Medan.

Medan didnae experience significant development till the 1860s, whan the Dutch colonialists begoud clearin the laund for tobacco plantations. Medan quickly becam a centre o govrenment an commercial activity, dominatin development o Indonesie's wastren region.

The Dutch govrened Tanah Deli frae 1658, efter Sultan Ismail, ruler o the Kinrick o Siak Sri Indrapura, yieldit some o his ance-ruled laund, Deli, Langkat, an Serdang. In 1915 Medan officially becam the caipital o North Sumatra Province, an officially a city in 1918.

 Sister ceeties 

 Ichikawa, Japan
 George Town, Malaysie
 Chengdu, Cheenae
 Gwangju, Republic o Korea


Category:Populatit places in North Sumatra
Category:Ceeties in Indonesie
Category:Regency caipitals o Indonesie
Category:Provincial caipitals in Indonesie