26 Facts About Pahang Sultanate

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At the height of its influence, the Sultanate was an important power in Southeast Asian history and controlled the entire Pahang basin, bordering to the north, the Pattani Sultanate, and adjoins to that of Johor Sultanate to the south.

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The invaders, who were aided by auxiliaries from Pahang Sultanate Kingdom, followed the old route by the Tembeling, Pahang Sultanate and Bera rivers.

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3.

Sultan of Melaka appointed Sri Bija Diraja Tun Hamzah, the commander of the army in the conquest, as the governor of Pahang Sultanate, and permitted him the privillege, once he was out of Melakan waters, of using six of the eight instruments that made up nobat band, and of having a pair of fringed umbrellas borne over him.

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4.

Pahang Sultanate recalled Sri Bija Diraja from Pahang and commanded him to escort Muhammad to that country and install him as Sultan.

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5.

The first Melakan ruler of Pahang Sultanate, appears to have settled at Tanjung Langgar in Pekan, the old seat of the former pre-Melakan rulers.

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6.

Pahang Sultanate married a daughter of Tun Hamzah and by her he had a son Raja Mansur.

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7.

Nobody could have desired Alauddin's death more eagerly than his elder brother Sultan Ahmad of Pahang Sultanate who had been passed over for the succession to the Melaka throne by Alauddin.

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8.

The Pahang Sultanate Sultan, enraged and humiliated, prepared to declare war on Melaka but was later calmed down by his chiefs.

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9.

Pahang Sultanate went into religious seclusion; he it is whom people call Marhum Syeikh.

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10.

Pahang Sultanate was slain by all of his hulubalang between the years 1512 and 1519, for committing adultery with a widow of his father.

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11.

Manuel de Faria e Sousa relates that until 1522 the Sultan of Pahang Sultanate had sided with the Portuguese, but seeing that the tide of fortune had turned against them, he, too became their enemy.

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12.

In 1525, Pedro Mascarenhas attacked Sultan of Johor's Bintan, Pahang Sultanate sent a fleet with two thousand men to help the defenders.

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13.

Pahang Sultanate despatched a vessel with Francisco Vasconcellos and others to attack the Pahang force which was speedily put to flight.

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14.

Sultan Mahmud of Pahang Sultanate appears to have ruled in Pahang Sultanate all through these events.

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15.

Sultan Mahmud of Pahang Sultanate died about 1530, and left two sons Raja Muzaffar and Raja Zainal, the former of whom succeeded him as Sultan Muzaffar Shah.

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16.

The Portuguese took the king at his word, fitted out an expedition, and proceeded to the Kelantan River where they attacked and captured three junks owned by Pahang Sultanate merchants, killing seventy four of the enemy, with a loss of only three of their men.

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17.

Pahang Sultanate was succeeded by his younger brother Raja Zainal, who assumed the title Sultan Zainal Abidin Shah.

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18.

Pahang Sultanate formed part of the force of three hundred sail and eight thousand men which assembled in the Johor River for a reprisal attack on Pattani, but later negotiations settled the dispute.

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19.

In 1550, Pahang Sultanate sent a fleet to help Johor and Perak in the siege of Melaka but the Portuguese warships so harried the harbours of Pahang Sultanate that the attackers had to retreat to defend their own capital.

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20.

Mansur II was killed about 1560 in a war against Javanese Hindus in southern Pahang Sultanate and was succeeded by his full brother Raja Jamal who took the title Sultan Abdul Jamal Shah.

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21.

Raja Kasab's children by the Pahang Sultanate princess were Raja Mahmud, and five daughters of whom the youngest was Putri Bongsu Chandra Dewi.

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22.

The Pahang Sultanate people manufactured cannon for firing projectiles which were better than those of Java but inferior to those of the Portuguese.

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23.

Pahang Sultanate nominally entered into a dynastic union with Johor in 1623, when Johor's Abdullah Ma'ayat Shah died and Raja Bujang emerged as the new ruler of Johor-Pahang Sultanate, installed as Sultan Abdul Jalil Shah Riayat Shah III.

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24.

From 1629 to 1635, Pahang Sultanate, operating independently from Sultan Abdul Jalil III appeared determined to oust the Acehnese, allying itself with the Dutch and Portuguese whenever it was expedient to do so.

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25.

Pahang Sultanate was governed by the set of laws that derived from the formal legal text of Melaka consisted of the Undang-Undang Melaka and the Undang-Undang Laut Melaka.

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26.

Since the pre-Melakan era, the inland river-valley routes that crossed through Pahang Sultanate formed significant trading network linking east and west coast of the peninsula.

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