Aceh Sultanate

1496 – 1904 CE · about 408 years

The Aceh Sultanate was a Muslim state in northern Sumatra that rose after the Portuguese took Malacca in 1511. Under Sultan Iskandar Muda in the early 17th century it controlled much of Sumatra's coast and was a centre of Islamic scholarship. The Dutch conquered it after the long Aceh War (1873–1904).