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...d from there to India. His descriptions of Palembang, a Buddhist center on Sumatra in the Srivijaya Empire, are particularly valuable to scholars today.

...eng He|Zheng He's]] forces decimate a community of [[overseas Chinese]] in Sumatra who refuse to acknowledge loyalty or submission to the [[Ming Dynasty]].

...re [[China]], [[Korea]], [[Siam]], [[Malacca]], [[Palembang]], [[Java]], [[Sumatra]], [[Pattani]], and Sunda Kelapa ([[Jakarta]]). There are 242 volumes in to

...Straits of Malacca, running between the Malay Peninsula and the island of Sumatra, connect the Indian Ocean to the South China Sea (and beyond that, the Paci

...embassy was sent to Siam in 1409, and relations with kingdoms in Java and Sumatra remained strong, having been established some time earlier by traders. All

...f trade with many of the other states in the region, including [[Java]], [[Sumatra]], and the Siamese kingdom of [[Ayutthaya]]. Chûzan entered a [[tribute|tr

...c relations with Ayutthaya and Korea, and trade relations with [[Java]], [[Sumatra]], and other states, as did the other two Ryukyuan kingdoms. However, only

...These were then exchanged in Luzon, Siam, Java (Sunda), Melaka, Palembang, Sumatra, Pattani, and Annam for a variety of spices, aromatic woods, skins, ivory, ...3]]-[[1518]]; unlike in relations with Siam and other regions, in Java and Sumatra local Chinese merchant communities directed the trade with Ryûkyû.<ref>Gu

...or so Southeast Asian polities. The ports of Thang-long in Vietnam, Aceh (Sumatra), Bantam (Java), and Makassar (Sulawesi), along with the Siamese royal capi