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The Sultanate of Aceh, officially the Kingdom of Aceh Darussalam (Acehnese: 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.
The Hikayat Aceh text reveals that the spread of Islam in northern Sumatra was carried out by an Arab scholar named Sheikh Abdullah Arif in 1112. The book Zhufan Zhi (諸蕃 志), written by Zhao Rugua in 1225, cited the record of a geographer, Chou Ku-fei, in 1178 that there is a Muslim country with only five days of voyage from Java .
Ali Mughayat Syah (died 7 August 1530) was the first Sultan of Aceh Darussalam in Northern Sumatra, reigning from about 1514 until his death.His reign not only saw the foundation of the Aceh Sultanate, but also the conquest of neighboring Daya (1520), Pidie (1521), and Pasai (1524).
Salahuddin (died 25 November 1548) was the second Sultan of Aceh Darussalam, reigning from 1530 to either 1537 or 1539.He was the eldest son of Sultan Ali Mughayat Syah, the founder of the Aceh Sultanate.
Acehnese traditional house. After the independence of Indonesia, the museum became the property of the Regional Government of Aceh. In 1969, under the initiative of Teuku Hamzah Bendahara, the Aceh Museum was moved from the old place (Blang Padang) to its present location in Jalan Sultan Alaidin Mahmudsyan on a 10,800 m2 land.
Sultan Alauddin Ri'ayat Syah Sayyid al-Mukammal (died 1605) was the tenth Sultan of Aceh in northern Sumatra, ruling from 1589 to 1604.His reign is important since it saw the arrival of three new European powers to the region of the Melaka Straits: the Dutch, English and French.
The tomb of Malikussaleh in Beuringen village, Samudra District, North Aceh Sultan Malikussaleh (Arabic: الملك الصالح, ALA-LC: Sultan al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ; Acehnese: Malik ul Saleh, Malikus Saleh; literal meaning: "the pious king" / "the pious ruler") was an Acehnese who established the first Muslim state of Samudera Pasai in the year 1267.
The crescent and star symbolises Islam, which was taken from the flag of the Ottoman Empire, Aceh favoured the Ottoman Empire due to its assistance against Portuguese expansionism and later on being a key ally to the sultanate, even requesting protection under the Ottomans, [4] The sword represents the sovereignty of Aceh, but also a symbol of ...