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Key

The Dutch East India Company (VOC) The company's European rivals: Spain, Portugal, England Aceh Mataram Banten Gowa–Tallo (Makassar) bond — succession, office, alliance conflict — war, revolt, prosecution

Sources & method

  1. Dutch East India Company — Wikipedia (the charter of 20 March 1602 and its powers) — source
  2. Alauddin Ri'ayat Syah Sayyid al-Mukammal; Iskandar Muda; Iskandar Thani; Taj ul-Alam — Wikipedia (Aceh's rulers, Houtman's captivity, the conquests of 1613–1617) — source
  3. Saidi Berkat; Mudafar Syah I; Hamza of Ternate; Mandar Syah — Wikipedia (the Spanish conquest of 1606, Matelief's contract, the 1652 clove treaty, the Great Ambon War) — source
  4. Battle of Cape Rachado; Abdullah Ma'ayat Shah of Johor — Wikipedia (the Dutch–Johor treaty of 1606) — source
  5. Jayakarta War; Batavia, Dutch East Indies; Pangeran Wijayakrama (id) — Wikipedia (Jayakarta becomes Batavia, 1618–1619) — source
  6. Dutch conquest of the Banda Islands — Wikipedia; Bloedbad van Banda — Dutch Wikipedia (the sentence of 8 May 1621 on 44 orang kaya) — source
  7. Amboyna massacre — Wikipedia (Van Speult, Towerson, March 1623) — source
  8. Siege of Batavia — Wikipedia; Sultan Agung dari Mataram — Indonesian Wikipedia (the rice depots of 1629) — source
  9. Battle of Duyon River — Wikipedia (Aceh's armada before Melaka, 1629) — source
  10. Siege of Malacca (1640–1641) — Wikipedia — source
  11. Banten Sultanate; Ageng Tirtayasa of Banten; Amangkurat I (id) — Wikipedia (Ranamanggala's regency, the war of 1656–1659, the Mataram treaty of 1646) — source
  12. Hasanuddin of Gowa; Karaeng Pattingalloang; Arung Palakka (en, id) — Wikipedia (Makassar in 1659–1660, the Bone rising, the flight to Buton) — source
Method. The chain of people follows a sourced account of the polity, 1600–1660; every claim the narration makes was checked against the sources above. Borders: historical-basemaps (A. Ourednik, GPL-3.0), the c.1600 snapshot, simplified — schematic, the right states in roughly the right places. Territorial changes: modern provinces (Natural Earth) or later snapshots standing in for historical ones. Portraits: each credited with its author, licence and source on the readable page. Relief: Esri World Physical Map. Narration: Azure neural voice.
A narrated polity atlas · 1600–1660

Maritime Southeast Asia, 1600–1660

How did a Dutch trading company, one buyer among many in 1600, become the power the courts of the islands had to fight or bargain with by 1660?
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