Note 64 — Chapter V · MORE OF CENTRAL JAVA

Common abbreviations, in speaking and writing, of Surakarta and Jogjakarta; Solo is, to put it correctly, the name of the place where Paku Buwono II., after his old kraton had been destroyed by fire in the civil war diligently fostered by the Company, built the present one, Surakarta Hadiningrat, i.e. the most excellent city of heroes.