Tapanoeli Residency

Tapanoeli Residency
Residentie Tapanoeli
Residency of Dutch East Indies
1844–1942

Malay-language map of Tapanoeli Residency (1909)
CapitalSibolga
History 
• Established
1844
• Disestablished
1942
Today part ofTapanuli

Tapanoeli Residency (Dutch: Residentie Tapanoeli) was an administrative subdivision of the Dutch East Indies with its capital in Sibolga. It was located in northern Sumatra and existed in various forms from 1844 until the end of Dutch rule in 1942.[1] The area it encompassed at various times corresponds to most of the western coast of the current day Indonesian province of North Sumatra and parts of Aceh, including much of the traditional heartland of Batak people (called in their language Tano Batak).[2] Lake Toba, a historically important crater lake, was also within the borders of the Residency.

  1. ^ Stibbe, D. G., ed. (1921). Encyclopaedie van Nederlandsch-Indië . - Vierde Deel (in Dutch). Nijhoff: Brill. pp. 273–7.
  2. ^ Aritonang, Jan S. (1994). Mission schools in Batakland (Indonesia), 1861-1940. Leiden. pp. 2–6. ISBN 9789004319912.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)