Figures, places, and events in Acehnese history associated with the year 1539 — the year of the Atjeh-Aroe War (1539), the Atjehnese fleet’s descent on Aroe, and Pinto’s first Sumatran mission.
People
- Mendez Pinto — Portuguese adventurer, eyewitness to the Atjeh-Aru war
- Pero de Faria — Portuguese governor of Malacca who dispatched Pinto
- Alleredin Mahomet — commander of the Atjehsche vloot, governor of Barus
- Sultan of Atjeh (16th century) — the Atjehnese sultan who launched the war
- Radja of Aroe — the east-coast ruler killed in the fall of Aroe
- Queen of Aroe — the queen-consort who fled to Malacca, Bentan, and Johor
- Sultan of Djohor — who married the Queen of Aroe and briefly retook Aroe
- P. de Roo de la Faille — modern source on the year 1539
Places
- Aroe
- Aroe-baai
- Poelo Kampi
- Pangkalan Soesoe
- Tandjoengpoera
- Barus
- Malacca
- Bentan
- Djohor
- Pasaman
- Batu
- Straits of Malacca
- Perak
Events
- Atjeh-Aroe War (1539)
- Mendez Pinto’s mission to Sumatra’s west coast (1539)
- Fall of Aroe to Atjeh
- Flight of the Queen of Aroe
- Johorese reconquest of Aroe
Organizations
Sources
Historische Curiositeiten uit Malajoe en Java, by P. de Roo de la Faille (Den Haag: Maart 1954), chapter “Mendez Pinto op Sumatra”, pp. 7-17.
Mendez Pinto’s Peregrinacam, cited in the seventeenth-century French translation Les Voyages adventureux de F.M.P. (1628).
Figures, places, and events in Acehnese history associated with the year 1539 — the year of the Atjeh-Aroe War (1539), the Atjehnese fleet’s descent on Aroe, and Pinto’s first Sumatran mission.
People
- Mendez Pinto — Portuguese adventurer, eyewitness to the Atjeh-Aru war
- Pero de Faria — Portuguese governor of Malacca who dispatched Pinto
- Alleredin Mahomet — commander of the Atjehsche vloot, governor of Barus
- Sultan of Atjeh (16th century) — the Atjehnese sultan who launched the war
- Radja of Aroe — the east-coast ruler killed in the fall of Aroe
- Queen of Aroe — the queen-consort who fled to Malacca, Bentan, and Johor
- Sultan of Djohor — who married the Queen of Aroe and briefly retook Aroe
- P. de Roo de la Faille — modern source on the year 1539
Places
- Aroe
- Aroe-baai
- Poelo Kampi
- Pangkalan Soesoe
- Tandjoengpoera
- Barus
- Malacca
- Bentan
- Djohor
- Pasaman
- Batu
- Straits of Malacca
- Perak
Events
- Atjeh-Aroe War (1539)
- Mendez Pinto’s mission to Sumatra’s west coast (1539)
- Fall of Aroe to Atjeh
- Flight of the Queen of Aroe
- Johorese reconquest of Aroe
Organizations
Sources
Historische Curiositeiten uit Malajoe en Java, by P. de Roo de la Faille (Den Haag: Maart 1954), chapter “Mendez Pinto op Sumatra”, pp. 7-17.
Mendez Pinto’s Peregrinacam, cited in the seventeenth-century French translation Les Voyages adventureux de F.M.P. (1628).