- Look up
papua or
Papua in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Papua may
refer to: New Guinea, the world's second-largest
island in the
southwestern Pacific...
- blacke, and have
their haire frisled, whom the
people of
Maluco do call
Papuas. "New Guinea" (Nueva Guinea) was the name
coined by the
Spanish explorer...
- Look up
papuan or
Papuan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Papuan is an
adjective referring to:
anything related to New Guinea, a
large island north...
- Look up West
Papua in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. West
Papua may
refer to:
Western New Guinea, the
western half of the
island of New
Guinea administered...
-
Peninsula and the
Waigeo Island, and
named the
region Ilhas dos
Papuas (Islands of
Papuans). In 1545 the
Spaniard Yñigo
Ortiz de
Retez sailed along the north...
- sailor,
called the
Papua region as "Os
Papuas" or llha de Papo. Don
Jorge de Menetes, a
sailor from
Spain also
stopped by in
Papua a few
years later (1526–1527)...
-
Indonesian provinces of
Central Papua,
Highland Papua,
Papua,
South Papua,
Southwest Papua, and West
Papua, also
formerly known as
Papua,
Irian Jaya and West Irian...
- provinces—Aceh, Jakarta, Yogyakarta,
Papua,
Central Papua,
Highland Papua,
South Papua,
Southwest Papua, and West
Papua—are
granted a
special autonomous status...
- sailor,
called the
Papua region as "Os
Papuas" or llha de Papo. Don
Jorge de Menetes, a
sailor from
Spain also
stopped by in
Papua a few
years later (1526–1527)...
-
Jorge de
Meneses saw the
western tip of New
Guinea and
named it
ilhas dos
Papuas. In 1528, the
Spanish navigator Álvaro de
Saavedra also
recorded its sighting...
