Aceh Sultanate

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The Aceh Sultanate was a powerful Islamic maritime kingdom in northern Sumatra that became a major regional trading and religious center in the 16th–17th centuries.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Aceh Sultanate canonical 21
Sultanate of Aceh 6
Acehnese aristocracy 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Islamic state ⓘ
historical polity ⓘ
maritime kingdom ⓘ
sultanate ⓘ
capital Banda Aceh ⓘ
conflictedWith Portuguese Empire ⓘ
Sultanate of Johor ⓘ
linked to: Johor Sultanate

Sultanate of Malacca ⓘ
linked to: Malacca Sultanate
continent Asia ⓘ
culturalSphere Malay world ⓘ
currencyType gold coins ⓘ
silver coins ⓘ
emergedAsMajorPowerInCentury 16th century ⓘ
exportedTo Europe ⓘ
India ⓘ
Middle East ⓘ
flourishedInCentury 17th century ⓘ
governmentType monarchy ⓘ
sultanate ⓘ
hadAllianceWith Ottoman Empire ⓘ
hadInstitution Islamic madrasas ⓘ
ulama councils ⓘ
importantCommodity camphor ⓘ
gold ⓘ
pepper ⓘ
spices ⓘ
knownFor Islamic scholarship ⓘ
maritime trade ⓘ
military strength ⓘ
pepper trade ⓘ
resistance to European colonial powers ⓘ
language Acehnese ⓘ
Malay ⓘ
legitimacyBasis Islamic law (sharia) ⓘ
locatedIn northern Sumatra ⓘ
locatedInPresentDay Indonesia ⓘ
majorPort Banda Aceh ⓘ
region Strait of Malacca ⓘ
religion Islam ⓘ
Sunni Islam ⓘ
religiousRole center of Islamic learning in Southeast Asia ⓘ
disseminator of Islam in the Malay world ⓘ
religiousSchool Shafi‘i school of Sunni Islam ⓘ
linked to: Shafi'i school
scriptUsed Arabic script ⓘ
strategicImportance control of access to the Strait of Malacca ⓘ
tradedWith Arabian Peninsula ⓘ
Dutch Republic ⓘ
Gujarat ⓘ
Mughal Empire ⓘ
Ottoman Empire ⓘ
Portuguese Empire ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (30)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Malacca Sultanate → successorState → Aceh Sultanate ⓘ
Johor Sultanate → tradingPartner → Aceh Sultanate ⓘ
Johor Sultanate → conflict → Aceh Sultanate ⓘ
Acehnese → hasHistoricalPolity → Aceh Sultanate ⓘ
Acehnese → historicalReligionCenter → Aceh Sultanate ⓘ
Aceh War → belligerent → Sultanate of Aceh ⓘ
linked to: Aceh Sultanate
Aceh → formerPolity → Sultanate of Aceh ⓘ
linked to: Aceh Sultanate
Malay sultanates → included → Aceh Sultanate ⓘ
Alam Melayu → historicallyLinkedTo → Aceh Sultanate ⓘ
Pasai Sultanate → alsoKnownAs → Samudera-Pasai Sultanate ⓘ
linked to: Aceh Sultanate
Pasai Sultanate → conqueredBy → Aceh Sultanate ⓘ
Pasai Sultanate → neighboringState → Aceh Sultanate ⓘ
Alauddin Riayat Shah II → opponent → Aceh Sultanate ⓘ
Sultanates → notableExample → Sultanate of Aceh ⓘ
linked to: Aceh Sultanate
Verandah of Mecca → associatedWithPolity → Sultanate of Aceh ⓘ
linked to: Aceh Sultanate
First Aceh Expedition → belligerent → Sultanate of Aceh ⓘ
linked to: Aceh Sultanate
Teuku Umar → placeOfBirth → Aceh Sultanate ⓘ
Teuku Umar → partOf → Acehnese aristocracy ⓘ
linked to: Aceh Sultanate
Second Aceh Expedition → belligerent → Sultanate of Aceh ⓘ
linked to: Aceh Sultanate
Acehnese people → historicalState → Aceh Sultanate ⓘ
Coat of arms of Aceh → symbolizes → historical Aceh Sultanate ⓘ
linked to: Aceh Sultanate
Islamization of Sumatra → earlyCenter → Aceh Sultanate ⓘ
Islamization of Sumatra → associatedWith → Aceh Sultanate ⓘ
Southeast Asian empires → includes → Aceh Sultanate ⓘ
Samudera Pasai → conqueredBy → Aceh Sultanate ⓘ
Samudera → successor → Aceh Sultanate ⓘ
Malay literature → earliestCenters → Aceh Sultanate ⓘ
Jambi–Johor polity → competedWith → Aceh Sultanate ⓘ