Sumatra and the Peninsula

The strait, and the states that lived on it: a thousand years of one passage between the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea changing hands, from Srivijaya to the sultanates that inherited its position and its sea peoples.

The line below is a time axis. Position on it is date, so concurrency is visible: concurrent polities sit side by side rather than in sequence.

2 sourced edges run between this region and another, to Singhasari and Kingdom of Portugal. Those are not drawn on this line — a thread that crossed regions would assert a sequence nobody cited — but they are on each polity’s own page.

7008009001000110012001300140015001600170018001900Srivijaya 671 – 1275Samudera Pasai 1267 – 1524Pagaruyung Kingdom 1347 – 1833Sultanate of Melaka 1400 – 1511The Sultanate of Kedah 1474 – 1821Aceh Darussalam 1496 – 1903The Sultanate of Patani 1500 – 1786The Sultanate of Johor 1528 – 1699Sultanate of Jambi 1615 – 1904Palembang Sultanate 1659 – 1823Sultanate of Siak Sri Indrapura 1718 – 1946Sultanate of Riau-Lingga 1824 – 19111400 Sultanate of Melaka claimed legitimacy of Srivijaya (contested)1511 Aceh Darussalam absorbed remnants of Sultanate of Melaka1524 Samudera Pasai conquered by Aceh Darussalam1528 The Sultanate of Johor claimed legitimacy of Sultanate of Melaka1718 Sultanate of Siak Sri Indrapura overthrew The Sultanate of Johor