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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 363 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RIOUW , Rtlouw or BINTANG, an See also:

archipelago of the Dutch See also:East Indies, E. of See also:Sumatra, and separated from the See also:Malay See also:Peninsula by the Straits of See also:Singapore. With the Lingga, Karimon, Tambelan, Anambas and Natuna Islands, to the N.E., E. and S., and the territory of Indragiri in Sumatra, it forms the Dutch residency of Riouw and dependencies. The seat of See also:government is at Tanjong Pinang, a small See also:port of 4000 inhabit-ants (including 16o Europeans and about 2000 See also:Chinese), on the S.W. See also:coast of the See also:chief See also:island, Bintang or Riouw. The See also:total See also:area of the residency is about 17,550 sq. m., and its See also:population (1905) 112,216, of whom considerably over a See also:quarter are Chinese. These cultivate See also:gambier and See also:pepper successfully in Bintang, and there is a considerable See also:trade in See also:wood. Bintang has an area of about 440 sq m., and is surrounded by many rocks and small islands, making See also:navigation dangerous. The See also:soil is not fertile, and much of it is swampy. There is an assistant residency of Lingga, to which belongs the island of Singkep, where extensive See also:tin-deposits are worked. Geologically the Riouw and Lingga Islands are appendages of the Malay Peninsula, not of Sumatra. Bintang is mentioned by Marco See also:Polo under the name of Pentam, which is not far from the genuine Malay name See also:Benton, said to mean a See also:half-See also:moon. After the Portuguese See also:conquest of Malacca (1511), the expelled See also:Mahommedan See also:dynasty'took'up its See also:residence on Bintang, where it See also:long fostered piracy.

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