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The earliest recorded history of Sabah being part of any organised civilisation began in the early 15th century during the thriving era of the Sultanate of Brunei. [1] Prior to this, early inhabitants of the land lived in predominantly tribal societies, although such tribal societies had continued to exist until the 1900s. [ 2 ]
Following the successful establishment of the Ampang tin mines by Muhamad Shah, Sultan Abdul Samad used the tin ore to trade with the Straits Settlements.The mines in turn attracted even more Chinese miners [9] with the help of Raja Abdullah bin Raja Jaafar, one of his sons-in-law and Yap Ah Loy, a Chinese Kapitan.
Salleh was a bureaucrat whose duty was to manage and develop lands and taking care of gambir and black pepper plantations. As the Head of the Land Management and State Survey, he successfully drew a complete map of Johore annotated in Jawi with geographical details for most of the district of Johore plus roads and cities that were planned for development during his tenure; this information was ...
On 1 July 1861, Spenser St John arrived in Mukah with 300 warboats and a fleet of sailing gunboats. James Brooke took control of Mukah and exiled Syarif to Singapore. Syarif was either willingly went to Singapore because resistance against Brookes were futile or Syarif was tricked by the Brookes to go to Kuching for peace agreement where Syarif ...
The Taliban (/ ˈ t æ l ɪ b æ n, ˈ t ɑː l ɪ b ɑː n /; Pashto: طَالِبَانْ, romanized: Tālibān, lit. 'students'), which also refers to itself by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan , [ 82 ] [ 83 ] [ a ] is an Afghan political and militant movement with an ideology comprising elements of Pashtun nationalism and ...