Yogyakarta is one of the major cities in Java Island which is the capital and administrative center of Yogyakarta, Indonesia,
and once the seat of the Sultan of Yogyakarta and Duke Pakualam.
One of the districts in Yogyakarta, namely Kotagede Sultanate of Mataram was once the center between 1575-1640. Kraton (palace) are still functioning in the real sense is the Palace Ngayogyakarta and Puro Pakualaman, which is a fraction of Mataram.
Yogyakarta name drawn from two words, namely Ayogya or "Ayodhya" which means "peace" (or without war, a "no", refers yogya Yodya or Yudha, which means "war"), and the Karta, which means "good". Ayodhya is a historic town in India where the epic Ramayana happened. Tread the palace of Yogyakarta itself according to the Chronicle (eg Chronicle Giyanti) and leluri (oral history) has the form of a palace called Dalem Gerjiwati; then renamed by Sunan Pakubuwana II as Dalem Ayogya.
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