Some general and historical facts about Bali.
Bali is an island in the Indian Ocean belonging to Indonesia with a tropical warm average climate the island's capital is Denpasar with an area of 5780 quadra kill meters, Bali is by far the largest island in the province of the same name Bali has approximately 4.5 a million residents Bali is located in the Indian Ocean between Java and Lombok the north-south extension is 95 kilometers from its western tip to the eastern tip it's 145 kilometers most of Bali's mountains are of volcanic origin and cover about three-quarters of the entire island area bound am are gong volcano on the big mountain is the highest on the island at 3142 meters for the Balinese is the seat of the gods it is also the pole of the Balinese coordinate-system the main language spoken in Bali are Balinese and Indonesian English is also widely spoken as a known Indonesian language due to tourism depending on the main tourist origin Dutch and Japanese and equation II also German Russian Italian or French are spoken in addition to the language mentioned.
Mandarin is also taught in private schools 89% of the population are Balinese the rest are divided between small Japanese and Chinese communities but now to the main point of the video the historical evolution of On the island of Bali the people in the village Balinese are believed to be originally from a prehistoric race who migrated throughout mainland Asia to the the central archipelago of Indonesia probably established around 2500 BC the end of the prehistoric era Indonesia was marked by the arrival of the Hindu people around 100 BC but now to the Majapahit and their descendants the Hindu Marg app a heat in Payal 1293 until 1520 of East Java founded a Balinese colony in 1343 their magic a heat Empire collapsed at the end of the fifteenth century due to succession quarrels and it's turtley was then passed under the control of one of these vessels the Prince of kediri of Central Java in 1527 troops from the Muslim kingdom of Gama conquered the ke D dominated territories for the rise of Islam in Indonesian archipelago a good part of the ostraka sea and the intellectuals and artistic elites of Java took refuge in Bali which meant an even greater contribution of the arts literature and Hindu religion on the island,
Bali became an independent kingdom in the late 15th century and the dynasty of Majapahit origin continued to rule Bali until nineteen eight when it was eliminated by Dutch intervention that imposed the rule of the Netherlands on the island the first Europeans to arrive on the island when a Pataki's ship was an act of the book it cost around 1585 in 1597 the Dutch explorer Cornelius Hood man arrived who claimed Bali for the Dutch crown shortly thereafter the Dutch established a trading company and the trading colony and starting in the 17th century the Dutch East India Company began trading in rivalry with British merchants the trade of the kings of Bali with the European companies were based on the sale of slaves that they sold in exchange for opium slaves from Bali were highly prized they were prisoners of war criminals orphans and widows the slave trade in Bali is considered to have been the source of several subsequent conflicts Dutch colonization under the pretext of eradicating the slave and optimum trade Dutch control of the island was imposed after a series of colonial wars in between 1846 and 18-49 in 1858 and 1868 to Balinese revolts were crushed by that stoops a Christian ization campaign was then launched which failed due to resistance from the inhabitants of the island in 1890.
The Dutch took advantage of a conflict between Balinese kingdom to increase the control of the over the island in 1894 they took over the neighboring island of Lombok in 1960 and 1980 under the pretext of preventing the looting of ships in the region then The Netherlands launched two military interventions that ended the rule of the Marja / 18 dynasty produced separately episodes of collective which were suicide known and Bali as pop Bhutan in which more than 4,000 people self-immolated the Western press denounced the bloody conquest of Bali and the disproportionate methylation of the Dutch troops in the face of the acts of resistance by the natives also accused of abuse in its colonial campaigns in Java and Sumatra the Dutch the government decided to apply an ethical policy in its Indonesian colonies to restore its image of a responsible colonial power they exercised lenient control of the island protecting and showing great respect for local religion and culture international tourism started in the year 1920 then the island was annexed by Japan until in 1945.
After world war 2 the proclamation of Indonesia to please on August 17th, 1945 since then Bali has been part of Indonesia General Suharto Sneider's ship got a wave of violence to Bali in 1965 on October 12 2002 202 people were killed in an explosive attack or to nightclubs in Kuta three years later on Saturday, October 1st, 2005 three explosive devices killed 26 people there were 122 engineers two of the bombs detonated on Zimbra Jimbaran beach another in front of a Kuta beach restaurant the police assumed suicide bombings and suspects the radical organization Jemaah Islamiyah behind that that after this fact several countries weren't about the risk of traveling to the affected regions consequently the number of tourists in Bali fell by 31% however Bali has been overwhelmed by excessive tourist demand that confronts the island with problems of pollution environmental deterioration and the shortage of drinking water supplies everything indicates that the sustainable management of tourism its main source of income will be the great challenge of Bali in the first decades of the 21st century, this was only a brief overview of the historical evolution of Bali.
