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Jepara origin of the name comes from the words of The Edge, Edge Jumpara Mara and who later became Jepara, which means a settlement where the traders who berniaga to various regions. According to the book "New History of the Tang Dynasty (618-906 AD)" noted that in the year 674 AD a traveler Tionghoa named I-Tsing never visited the Holing country or forth or Kalinga is also known as Java or Japa and believed to be located in the Keling, Jepara eastern today, and led by a king named her Queen Shima is known to be very strict.

According to a named Portuguese writer Tomé Pires in his book "Suma Oriental", a new Jepara known in the XV century (1470 AD) as a small trading port of the new 90-100 inhabited by people and led by East Aryo and was under the rule of Demak. East Aryo then succeeded by his son named Pati Unus (1507-1521). Pati Unus trying to build a trading city of Jepara.


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