See soorce fer Medan

[[File:Lokasi Sumatra Utara Kota Medan.svg|thumb|right|Location o Medan in North Sumatra]]

'''Medan''' ({{lang-id|Kota Medan}}; pronoonced {{IPA-id|meˈdan|}}) is the caipital o the [[North Sumatra]] province in [[Indonesie]]. Locatit on the northren coast, Medan is the fowert lairgest ceety in Indonesie (ahint [[Jakarta]], [[Surabaya]], an [[Bandung]]), an the lairgest Indonesian ceety ootside [[Java]]. The ceety is bordered bi the [[Deli Serdang Regency]] tae the east, sooth an wast, an the [[Strait o Malacca]] tae the north. It is close tae the volcano [[Sinabung]], which eruptit in August 2010 efter a 400 year dormant state.

== History ==
Medan stairtit as a veelage cried ''Kampung Medan'' (Medan Veelage). Kampung Medan wis foondit bi [[Guru Patimpus]] aroond the 1590s. Acause Kampung Medan sits on [[Tanah Deli]] (Land o Deli), Kampung Medan is an aa referred as Medan-Deli. The oreeginal location o Kampung Medan is an aurie whaur the [[Deli River]] meets the [[Babura River]].
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Based on the diary o the [[Portugal|Portuguese]] merchant in early 16t century, it statit that the name o Medan wis actually derived frae [[Medina]] which is actually a holy ceety in the wastren pairt o [[Saudi Arabie]]. Housomeivver, ither soorces indicatit that the name o Medan actually came frae [[Indie|Indian]] [[Hindi]] leid wird "Maidan" meanin "grund" or "land" (lik in [[Pragati Maidan]] in [[Delhi]]). Ane o the Karo-Indonesia dictionary written bi Darwin Prinst SH published in 2002 wrote that Medan coud an aa be defined as "recover" or "be better".

The first indwallers o Medan came frae the [[Ethnic Malays|Malay]] frae the [[Malay Peninsular]]. It wis no till the Sultan o Aceh, [[Sultan Iskandar Muda]], sent his warlord, Gocah Pahlawan Laksamana Khoja Bintan, tae be the [[Sultanate o Aceh]]'s representative in Tanah Deli, that the [[Sultanate o Deli]] stairtit tae grow. This growthe stimulatit growthe in baith the population an cultur o Medan. In the seicont year reign o Sultan Deli (atween 1669–1698), thare wis a cavalry battle in Medan.

Medan did no experience significant development till the 1860s, when the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] colonialists began clearin the land for [[tobacco]] plantations. Medan quickly became a centre o govrenment an commercial activity, dominatin development o Indonesie's wastren region.

The [[Netherlands|Dutch]] govrened Tanah Deli frae 1658, efter [[Sultan Ismail]], ruler o the [[Kinrick o Siak Sri Indrapura]], yieldit some o his ance-ruled land, Deli, [[Langkat]], an [[Serdang]]. In 1915 Medan offeecially became the caipital o North Sumatra Province, an offeecially a ceety in 1918.

== Sister ceeties ==
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* '''[[Ichikawa, Chiba|Ichikawa]]''', [[Japan]]
* '''[[George Town, Penang|George Town]]''', [[Malaysie]]
* '''[[Chengdu]]''', [[Fowkrepublic o Cheenae|Cheenae]]
* '''[[Gwangju]]''', [[Republic o Korea]]

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