Senin, 16 Maret 2009

HISTORY OF BANDUNG, INDONESIA


HISTORY OF BANDUNG

They are many verses about Bandung name. Some of telling that Bandung name means “banding” a Sundanesse frase. Its mean side by side.
The other verse, Bandung is mean a very large pool. That word is derived from “bandeng”. In Sundanesse “ngabandeng” mean a big dam of water. It is look as a quiet and silence pool. But full with a misytical mind. Than the word of “banding” change onto “bandung”. But there is one other else, Bandung derived from“bendung”.
Historycal of Bandung name, always commemory with explotion of Tangkuban perahu mount. This explotion make Citarum river unflow by material volcanic. Tangkuban perahu mount exploded at about 6000 years ago in holosen era.
And the result, the area Padalarang – cicalengka and Tangkuban perahu mount to Soreang was watering. The area became a very huge water dam. It was called with Bandung Lake or ancient Bandung Lake. Geological research., Bandung lake begin to dry at neolitikum era ((± 8000 – 7000 BC). Time by time and the Drying process need about hundreds years old.