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13-635: Damansara may refer to: Damansara, Selangor , a mukim of the Petaling district, state of Selangor, Malaysia Constituencies Damansara , a federal constituency in Selangor, Malaysia Damansara , a former federal constituency in the Federal Territories, Malaysia Damansara Utama (state constituency) , a state constituency in Selangor, Malaysia Kota Damansara (state constituency) ,

26-687: A state constituency in Selangor, Malaysia Other places Damansara River , a river in the state of Selangor, Malaysia Kota Damansara , a suburb in Sungai Buloh subdistrict of Petaling Jaya city Damansara Jaya Damansara Perdana Kwasa Damansara Mutiara Damansara Bandar Sri Damansara Ara Damansara Damansara Town Centre Bukit Damansara Bandar Damansara Kuantan Taman Damansara Aliff 3 Damansara Shopping Mall Jalan Damansara See also [ edit ] All pages with titles containing Damansara [REDACTED] Topics referred to by

39-636: A stone's throw of each other. Besides that, the Uptown commercial area, which houses the Malaysian branch of several multi-national companies, is located in Damansara Utama. Due to electoral purposes, Damansara was redelineated into two voting districts for Parliamentary representation. One is the constituency of Sungai Buloh , held by Sivarasa Rasiah , a member of the People's Justice Party while

52-404: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Damansara, Selangor The area defined as Damansara has changed over time. The mukim (commune/sub-district) of Damansara, being part of Klang before 1974, covered the state capital Shah Alam , Subang Jaya , Bandar Sunway , Kelana Jaya , Kota Kemuning and parts of Putra Heights . It

65-508: Is home to several townships, but most of the subdivision falls under the administration of Petaling Jaya City Council . It includes the following townships: Damansara has been dubbed the "Golden Triangle" of Petaling Jaya. Commercially, it is positioned to do well, boasting a Tesco outlet, IPC Shopping Centre , One Utama , the largest IKEA outlet in Southeast Asia , as well as The Curve shopping complex, all of them located within

78-533: The People's Justice Party for the constituency of Bukit Lanjan . The state seat of Kota Damansara was transferred to Sungai Buloh constituency in 2016 and is currently held by Shatiri Mansor from PKR. 3°03′07″N 101°33′30″E  /  3.052008°N 101.558223°E  / 3.052008; 101.558223 Kelana Jaya Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include

91-606: The east, covering the constituencies of Damansara , Petaling Jaya and Sungai Buloh . Damansara was originally a small harbour-like settlement that was located near the mouth of the Damansara River along the Klang River . In the mid-1870s, it was the final destination for steamboats used by the British to travel to Kuala Lumpur from Klang as the steam boats used cannot go as far as the center of Kuala Lumpur near

104-724: The junction of Gombak River and Klang River. Travellers would then go from Damansara to Kuala Lumpur via the Damansara Road which finished at Brickfields in Kuala Lumpur. One popular theory suggests that the name is fossilized as a result of spelling mistake, and the place was originally named Damar Sara, as marked in a map of 1882. 'Damar' means resin obtained from any of a number of tropical, chiefly Indo-Malaysian trees, used to make varnish, while 'Sara' means precious or important in Sanskrit. It has been speculated that

117-605: The other is the eponymous constituency of Damansara, held by Tony Pua of the Democratic Action Party . Both parties are part of the opposition alliance, Pakatan Rakyat . In the Selangor State Assembly , the communities are represented by Jamaliah Jamaluddin from the Democratic Action Party for the constituency of Bandar Utama, Lim Yi Wei , also from the Democratic Action Party for the constituency of Kampung Tunku, and Wong Keat Ping from

130-426: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Damansara&oldid=988853576 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

143-448: The then British Resident and land registrar, Sir William Maxwell, had accidentally mistook the ‘r’ for an ‘n’ and merged the words ‘Damar Sara’ into ‘Damansara' when he implements Selangor Registration of Titles Regulation on 1891. Damansara was originally a small river port, and the harbour was known as Labuhan Sara – Labuhan means a place for ships to anchor, while sara can be taken to mean "departure" or "embarkation" (related to

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156-582: The word bersara meaning retirement). However, this theory is unlikely to be true since there exists written and cartographic records which suggest that the Damansara was already in use earlier. The spelling was used by the second Resident of Selangor, William Douglas in his diary entry (July 21, 1867) when he traveled to Kuala Lumpur for the first time; and it can also be found a map sent to Edward Maxwell by Frank Swettenham in March 1883. The Damansara area

169-408: Was named after the Damansara River which flows through the commune. The mukim of Damansara therefore roughly corresponds to the parliamentary constituencies of Shah Alam , Subang and Kota Raja . Today, the definition of Damansara has moved north, in the northern part of Petaling Jaya 's city area, bordered by Kelana Jaya in the south, Kepong / Sungai Buloh in the north and Segambut in

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