koninkrijkjes (English: “small kingdoms”) is a term or concept described in Jongejan’s Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu in relation to Aceh. The numerous small polities under various princes and petty princes with varying power and influence that existed in pre-Islamic Atjeh.
Translation
small kingdoms
Description
The numerous small polities under various princes and petty princes with varying power and influence that existed in pre-Islamic Atjeh. Marco Polo (c. 1290) mentioned six of them.
Significance
The term koninkrijkjes is recorded by Jongejan as part of the cultural, administrative, or institutional vocabulary of Aceh.
See Also
Source
Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu, by J. Jongejans, Oud-Resident van het Gewest Atjeh en Onderhoorigheden, with a foreword by Dr. H. Colijn (Baarn: Hollandia Drukkerij N.V., c. 1938), pp. 25.