What is it about?
Dutchfactors were based in Aceh for most of this period, reporting regularly to the VOC about conditions of trade and politics in the sultanate. ThisIntroduction in English sets the scene for two volumes of reportage in the original Dutch
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Why is it important?
These documents provide the best source for the sultanate at the height of its power, with intimations of its coming decline. For most of the period Aceh first Queen was on the throne, and the documents show how female rule worked in an Islamic sultanate.
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This page is a summary of: Introduction: A New Source for Seventeenth Century Aceh, January 2015, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004288829_002.
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