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moluccas

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Noun

a group of island in eastern Indonesia between Celebes and New Guinea; settled by the Portuguese but taken by the Dutch who made them the center for a spice monopoly, at which time they were known as Spice Islands

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Moluccas Spice Islands

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malacca mollusca moluccas
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