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Name: perak

Type: Cluster

Start: 1529 AD

End: 1896 AD

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The cluster includes all the forms of the country.

The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:

  • Sultanate of Perak
  • Sultanate of Perak (British Protectorate)
  • Establishment


  • January 1529: When the Sultanate of Malacca empire fell to Portugal in 1511, Sultan Mahmud Syah I retreated to Kampar, Sumatra, and died there in 1528. He left behind two princes named Sultan Alauddin Riayat Shah II and Sultan Muzaffar Syah. The former went on to establish the Sultanate of Johor. Muzaffar Syah was invited to rule Perak: he became the first sultan of Perak.
  • Chronology


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    1. Conquests of Iskandar Muda


    Expansion during the rule of Iskandar Muda in the Aceh Sultanate.

  • January 1608: Alauddin Riayat Shah ibn Firman Shah conquered Pahang, a tin-producing region of the Malayan Peninsula.
  • January 1630: Expansion of the Sultanate of Aceh by 1630.
  • January 1630: Aceh conquers the region of Kedah.

  • 2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • January 1874: The Dindings - named after the Dinding River in present-day Manjung District - which comprised Pangkor Island, and the towns of Lumut and Sitiawan on the mainland, were ceded by Perak to the British government under the Pangkor Treaty of 1874.

  • January 1874: British protectorate established in Perak.

  • July 1896: In 1896, Perak, a British protectorate in Malaya, became part of the Federated Malay States. This decision was made by Sir Frank Swettenham, the British Resident-General of the Federated Malay States, and Sultan Idris Murshidul Adzam Shah I of Perak.

  • Disestablishment


  • July 1896: In 1896, Perak, a British protectorate in Malaya, became part of the Federated Malay States. This decision was made by Sir Frank Swettenham, the British Resident-General of the Federated Malay States, and Sultan Idris Murshidul Adzam Shah I of Perak.
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