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Fatahillah was able to push back the Sundanese troops, and Sunda Kelapa was conquered on June 22. Fatahillah renamed the city Jakarta. [3] [4] By this time, the Portuguese had sent a fleet of five [5] or six [6] ships led by Francisco de Sa and Duarte Coelho. They were unaware of the situation happening in Sunda Kelapa. [7]
"Sunda Kalapa" (Sundanese: "Coconut of Sunda") is the original name, and it was the main port of the Sunda Kingdom. The port is situated in Penjaringan District, of North Jakarta , Indonesia . Today the old port only accommodates pinisi , a traditional two-masted wooden sailing ship providing inter-island freight service in the archipelago.
One of the ports at the mouth of a river was renamed Sunda Kelapa or Kalapa (Coconut of Sunda), as written in Hindu Bujangga Manik, manuscripts from a monk's lontar and one of the precious remnants of Old Sundanese literature. [7] The port served Pakuan Pajajaran (present day Bogor), the capital of the Sunda Kingdom. By the fourteenth century ...
The Tijgersgracht canal lined with the houses of the city's most prominent families, c. 1682. 397 CE – The port town known as Sunda Kelapa.; Mid 5th century – The region around the port was under Hindu Tarumanagara kingdom's rule, according to Tugu inscription discovered in North Jakarta.
The city of Sunda Kelapa was later renamed Jayakarta. He made these territories the new sultanate of Banten , a vassal state of Demak under the reign of Hasanudin . Trenggana spread Demak's influence eastwards and during his reign he conquered the remains of the last Javanese Hindu-Buddhist state, the once mighty Majapahit .
Fatahillah, Fadhillah Khan, or Falatehan (Portuguese writing) [1]: 433 was a commander of the Sultanate of Demak who is known for leading the conquest of Sunda Kelapa in 1527 and changing its name to Jayakarta. [citation needed] The conquest of Sunda Kelapa was one of his missions to spread Islam to West Java. [2]
The port of Sunda Kelapa. Penjaringan District is the area to the left of the port. The right side of the port is the Administrative Village of Ancol in Pademangan District. The historic Pasar Ikan ("fish market") is the building on the foreground, built on a restored warehouse of the Dutch East India Company (VOC).
A Chinese source more specifically refers to it as the port of Banten or Sunda Kelapa. After the formation and consolidation of the Sunda Kingdom 's unity and identity during the Pajajaran era under the rule of Sri Baduga Maharaja (popularly known as King Siliwangi ), the shared common identity of Sundanese people was more firmly established.