Places
- Bantam (city), a city and former sultanate on Java island, in Indonesia
- Sultanate of Banten, former sultanate centered on the above city
- Banten, current province of Indonesia on territory of the former sultanate
- Bantam, Cocos (Keeling) Islands
- Bantam, Connecticut, United States
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“All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)
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