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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 9791957, member: 2844&quot;]The Straits are the sea straits in Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia, for instance Malacca Strait, Java Strait, Madura Strait. These straits were important in international trade, especially trade from the Spice Islands in Indonesia.</p><p><br /></p><p>Many international merchants settled along the Straits. These merchants came mostly from China, India, Yemen, Portugal, and the Netherlands. Many of them married local women, and communities of people of mixed origin emerged. These groups facilitated contact with locals, which promoted trade.</p><p>One of the most important and most visible mixed communities is that of the Straits Chinese, currently often referred to as Peranakan.</p><p><br /></p><p>The term Nyonya Ware stems from this group.</p><p>Nyonya means Mrs. In the past the Nyonyas were only European and Dutch-Indonesian ladies, but since ca 1900 Peranakan ladies were also known as Nyonya, because by that time in Indonesian colonial society their status was on a par with that of Dutch-Indonesian ladies (but below European ladies<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" />). The term spread throughout the Straits.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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