The Beringharjo Market ( id, Pasar Beringharjo, jv, ꦥꦱꦂꦧꦼꦫꦶꦁꦲꦂꦗ, Pasar Beringharja) is the oldest market in the '' Kraton'' area of

Yogyakarta Yogyakarta (; jv, ꦔꦪꦺꦴꦒꦾꦏꦂꦠ ; pey, Jogjakarta) is the capital city of Special Region of Yogyakarta in Indonesia, in the south-central part of the island of Java. As the only Indonesian royal city still ruled by a monarchy, ...

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, having been a continuous place of trade since 1758. Right off of the main street

Jalan Malioboro ''Jalan Malioboro'' ( jv, ꦢꦭꦤ꧀ꦩꦭꦶꦪꦧꦫ, Dalan Maliyabara; en, Malioboro Street) is a major shopping street in Yogyakarta, Indonesia; the name is also used more generally for the neighborhood around the street. It lies north� ...

, Beringharjo Market is officially located on Jalan Margo Mulyo No. 16, Yogyakarta. The word ''beringharjo'' literally means "banyan tree forest", a reference to the former trees that occupied the land, as well as to the notion that the market was expected to provide welfare for Yogyakarta residents. The stalls at Beringharjo Market sell a variety of goods, including ''

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'', clothing, souvenirs,

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, '' jajanan pasar'' (market snacks) ( id), basic ingredients, household items, ''

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'' (traditional herbal medicine), and antiques.

History

The Beringharjo area was originally a

banyan A banyan, also spelled "banian", is a fig that develops accessory trunks from adventitious prop roots, allowing the tree to spread outwards indefinitely. This distinguishes banyans from other trees with a strangler habit that begin life as a ...

forest. Not long after the establishment of the '' Kraton'' in 1758, the area began to be used for transactions by residents of Yogyakarta and the surrounding areas. On 24 March 1925, the ''Keraton'' tasked the ''Nederlandsch Indisch Beton Maatschappij'' (Dutch East Indies Concrete Company) with building market stalls, and by the end of August 1925, eleven had been installed, with and others soon following. By the end of March 1926, the construction of an

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architectural market was complete, and began to be used a month after that. The market was originally known as ''Pasar Gedhe'' ( Javanese: " heLarge Market"), so called as it was the biggest in Yogyakarta at that time, as well as the only one on the main road area stretching from the ''Kraton'' to the Tugu. During the Dutch colonial era, ''Pasar Gedhe'' was also nicknamed ''Passer Op van Java'', or "the most beautiful market in Java".

References

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