title: Ambon
text: # Ambon
  
  Ambon may refer to:
  
  ## Places
  
  * Ambon Island, an island in Indonesia
     * Ambon, Maluku, a city on Ambon Island, the capital of Maluku province
     * Governorate of Ambon, a colony of the Dutch East India Company from 1605 to 1796
  * Ambon, Morbihan, a commune in Morbihan, France
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Ambon (liturgy), the place directly in front of the Holy Doors of an Eastern Orthodox Church
  * Battle of Ambon, a World War II battle between Allied and Japanese forces which occurred on the island in 1942
  