Located on the island of Java, Yogyakarta is the capital of the region with the same name, the only one in Indonesia still ruled by a pre-colonial monarchy, the Sultan of Yogyakarta, who serves as the hereditary governor of the region. The current Sultan is the tenth of the dinasty Hamengkubuwono, which rule the region since 1755. Yogyakarta (which means in Indonesian "the city that is fit to prosper") was the capital of Indonesia between 1945 and 1949, and one of its districts, Kotagede, was the capital of Mataram Sultanate between 1575 and 1640.
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