Pahang, officially Pahang Darul Makmur with the Arabic honorific Darul Makmur, is a state of Malaysia. It is the third largest state in the country and the largest state in Peninsular Malaysia, coveri
Sultan Ahmad and his attendants circa 1897. The ruler seized the Pahang throne in 1863 after six years of civil war against his brother Tun Mutahir and his British-Johor allies. His reign marked the restoration of Pahang as a Sultanate and modernisation of the state.