[Original Dutch] Hotel du Pavilion - Bodjong - Semarang [end]
Semarang was a prominent town in the central island of Java during the colonial period. Although the city's history goes back a thousand or more years, it was after the Dutch East India Company fully took over at the start of the 18th century that Semarang became one of the key colonial trading and manufacturing hubs on an island rich in agricultural and natural resources.