Samudera Pasai Sultanate
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The Samudera Pasai Sultanate, also known as Samudera or Pasai or Samudera Darussalam or Pacem, was a Muslim kingdom on the north coast of Sumatra from the 13th to the 16th centuries.
Malik al-Salih tombstone
Cakra Donya bell was a gift from Zheng He during his voyage to Pasai.
Nicolaes Visscher Indiae Orientalis
Ming treasure voyages
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Ming China's treasure fleet undertook maritime expeditions between 1405 and 1433. The Yongle Emperor ordered the construction of the fleet in 1403. The grand project resulted in seven far-reaching oce
Samudera Pasai Sultanate
…was accessible to all the merchants of the archipelago who wanted to meet ships from the Indian Ocean. Cakra Donya bell was a gift from Zheng He during his voyage to Pasai. In the year 1345, Ibn Battuta, a Moroccan traveller visited Samudra Pasai where he notes in his travel log that the ruler of Samudera Pasai…
Painting of the Yongle Emperor, dated to the Ming dynasty (National Palace Museum)
Wax statue of Admiral Zheng He (Quanzhou Maritime Museum)
The Chinese treasure fleet as painted by Vladimir Kosov, dated 2018
A gold ingot excavated from the tomb of Prince Zhuang of Liang, a son of the Hongxi Emperor, with an inscription stating that the ingot was made from gold purchased at the Western Ocean in the 17th year of the Yongle reign (1419), indicating that the gold was purchased in the fifth voyage (Hubei Provincial Museum)