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فتح سوندا كلاڤ

Fatahillah takes Sunda Kelapa

933 AH · 1527 CE

Sunda Kelapa (Jakarta) سوندا كلاڤ

Forces of Demak and Cirebon led by Fatahillah took the port of Sunda Kelapa from the Hindu kingdom of Sunda, before the Portuguese could build a fort there. He renamed it Jayakarta, 'complete victory'. The city later became Batavia under the Dutch and today is Jakarta, which marks 22 June 1527 as its founding.

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Sources

  • M. C. Ricklefs, A History of Modern Indonesia since c. 1200 (4th ed., 2008)
Draft, awaiting scholarly review.