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Palembang is a city in the south of the Indonesia n island of Sumatra . It is the capital of the Province of South Sumatra . Palembang is located at . The city was once the capital of the ancient, partly Hindu partly Buddhist kingdom of Srivijaya . Following a 1025 raid by pirates from the Chola region of southern India it began to gradually decline in importance. Srivajaya's capital eventually moved northward to Jambi . The architectural legacy of Dutch colonization is still visible in the city. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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