Regency (Indonesia)
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A regency, sometimes incorrectly referred to as a district and previously known as second-level region, is an administrative division of Indonesia, directly under a province and on the same level with
Portrait of a Javanese regent in gala uniform (c. 1900).
Sosroningrat, Regent of Jepara 1881–1905
Regent
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In a monarchy, a regent is a person appointed to execute the office of a monarch temporarily, essentially as a substitute ruler. Regencies may arise for a number of reasons, including the monarch bein
Regency (Indonesia)
…capitals as the titular name of their regency. The English name "regency" comes from the Dutch colonial period, when regencies were ruled by bupati (or regents) and were known as regentschap in Dutch (kabupaten in Javanese and subsequently Indonesian). Bupati had been regional lords under the precolonial…
The oath of the provisional triumviral regents of the Empire of Brazil on behalf of the 5-year-old Emperor Pedro II in 1831, at the beginning of the Regency period.
Regentesses of the Old Men's Almshouse in Haarlem, Frans Hals, 1664