marga (English: “Marga (territorial unit in Alaslanden)”) is a term or concept described in Jongejan’s Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu in relation to Aceh. Territorial division created in 1912 in the Alaslanden, four per realm, each under a penghoeloe si’mpat.
Translation
Marga (territorial unit in Alaslanden)
Description
Territorial division created in 1912 in the Alaslanden, four per realm, each under a penghoeloe si’mpat. Replaced a flawed earlier division.
Significance
The term marga 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. 347.