State · 1496 – 1903

Aceh Sultanate

A state of 1496 – 1903 — 407 years in East and Southeast Asia. It replaced Samudera Pasai Sultanate. It was followed by Dutch East Indies. The atlas records 3 things within it — wars and battles 2 · people 1. Its line of rulers holds 3 people.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 407 years; 1496 – 1903
Rulers: 3; the Sultan
Most ground: 128,000 km²; in 1626
Within it: 3; recorded rows
Symbols: 2; on record, with years

Map: Aceh Sultanate in 1626, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Aceh Sultanate in 1626, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 128,000 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Aceh Sultanate in 1516, first mapped — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Aceh Sultanate in 1626, at its largest — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

Samudera Pasai Sultanate · replaces · 1267 – 1521

After it

Dutch East Indies · followed by · 1800 – 1949

Rulers

Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.

ending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source
Ali Mughayat Syah	1514 – 1530	16 years	ending not on record
Iskandar Muda	1607 – 1636	29 years	ending not on record
Alauddin Muhammad Da'ud Syah II	1875 – 1903	28 years	ending not on record

3 rulers, 3 with terms dated as terms, covering 1514 – 1903. Median reign 28 years. 0 of 2 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

9,000 km² in 1521, 42,400 km² in 1903; at its largest 109,500 km² in 1621. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flags and arms, in order

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

flag, undatedFlag of Aceh Sultanate · Public domain
coat of arms, undatedAcehCoatOfArms · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Gabriel Ziegler

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1500 – 15991 row

Hamzah Fansuri · philosopher · 1550 – 1590

1800 – 18992 rows · 2 wars and battles

Aceh War · war · 1873 – 1904
Second Aceh Expedition · battle · 1873 – 1874

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood407 years
stood longer than 81% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held128,000 km²
held more ground at its peak than 50% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per century0.2
had more wars on record per century than 90% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median28 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 80% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record3
has more rulers on record than 48% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 1 cause the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1455 – 1944, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1626, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q1061057 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.