Empire · approximate1496 – 1903 · 407 years

Aceh Sultanate

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Overview

The Aceh Sultanate, officially the Kingdom of Aceh Darussalam, was a sultanate centered in the modern-day province of Aceh of Indonesia. It was a major regional power in the 16th and 17th centuries, before experiencing a long period of decline. Its capital was Kutaraja, the present-day Banda Aceh.

Wikipedia: Aceh Sultanate·CC BY-SA 4.0

Borders & accuracy

Approximate borders

Dashed borders mark empires whose extent we can date but whose precise frontiers are contested or undocumented.

SOURCEreconstructed from Natural Earth country boundaries
DETAILreconstructed-clipped-country
SNAPSHOT1640
POLITY TYPEstate

Wars of this empire6

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

Aceh Sultanate's invasion of Malacca (1629)1629
Major conflict
Aceh War1873–1904
Significant · 100K dead
Siege of Malacca (1568)1568
Significant
Iskandar Muda's campaigns on the Malay peninsula1607–36
Significant
First Aceh Expedition1873
Significant
Second Aceh Expedition1873–74
Significant

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Cite as: Aceh Sultanate (1496 – 1903). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/asia-aceh-sultanate · Sources & methodology