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Singapore. The Sultanate of Aceh, officially the Kingdom of Aceh Darussalam ( Acehnese: Nanggroe Acèh Darussalam; Jawoë: اچيه دارالسلام), was a sultanate centered in the modern-day Indonesian province of Aceh. It was a major regional power in the 16th and 17th centuries, before experiencing a long period of decline.
Iskandar Muda. Iskandar Muda (1583? [1] – 27 December 1636 [2]) was the twelfth Sultan of Acèh Darussalam, under whom the sultanate achieved its greatest territorial extent, holding sway as the strongest power and wealthiest state in the western Indonesian archipelago and the Strait of Malacca. "Iskandar Muda" literally means "young ...
Aceh was a major commercial adversary for the Portuguese, especially during the reign of Iskandar Muda, who had a well equipped arsenal of 1200 cannons and 800 swivel-guns and muskets, possibly controlling more of the spice trade than the Portuguese. The Portuguese tried to destroy the Aceh–Ottoman–Venetian trade axis for their own benefit.
The Hikayat Aceh is a 17th-century history of the Aceh Sultanate, which is located on the northern tip of the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. Written in Malay in the Arabic script it chronicles and eulogizes the Acehnese Sultan Iskandar Muda (1583-1636; reigned 1607–1636; national hero of Indonesia since 1993).
Iskandar Thani was the son of the 11th sultan of Pahang, Ahmad Shah II, who was brought to Aceh in the conquest of Pahang in 1617 by Iskandar Muda. He married the sultan's daughter, the later Sulṭāna Taj ul-Alam, and succeeded Iskandar Muda as sultan when he died in 1636. Reigning in the wake of the rout of the Acehnese fleet in 1629 ...
The Lembaga Wali Nanggroë (lit "Institute chiefdom") is a provincial -level government designation. In the Malay language, it is referred to as "Negeri". A nanggroë is led by a raja (monarch) or a wali (chief), who has the title Paduka Yang Mulia (lit. "Your Excellency"). However, since Aceh is led by a governor in the current Indonesian ...
Abdul Rahman bin Nordin, Secretary General. Website. www .cuepacs .my. The Congress of Union of Employees in the Public and Civil Services Malaysia ( Malay: Kongres Kesatuan Pekerja-pekerja di dalam Perkhidmatan Awam Malaysia ), abbreviated CUEPACS, is a national trade union centre in Malaysia. It has a membership of 1,200,000.
Aceh War. The Aceh War ( Indonesian: Perang Aceh ), also known as the Dutch War or the Infidel War (1873–1904), was an armed military conflict between the Sultanate of Aceh and the Kingdom of the Netherlands which was triggered by discussions between representatives of Aceh and the United States in Singapore during early 1873. [8]