Sultan Iskandar Muda of Aceh elephants in Indonesia

Sultan Iskandar Muda of Aceh
Type	private

Owner
Place	Aceh
Country	Indonesia

Directors

Key People

Veterinarians

Elephant department

Head keepers of elephants

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Record history
History of updates	2010-04-21

Latest document update	2020-10-30 07:03:11
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Sultan Iskandar Muda of Aceh elephants, in Aceh, Indonesia .

Comments / picturesIskandar Muda (1583 - December 27, 1636) was the twelfth sultan of Aceh, under whom the sultanate achieved its greatest territorial extent, and was the strongest power and wealthiest state in the western Indonesian archipelago and the Strait of Malacca. "Iskandar Muda" literally means "young Alexander," and his conquests were often compared to those of Alexander the Great.
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Based on a note by the French Admiral De Beaulieu when visiting Aceh in 1621, the Sultan had 900 trained elephant armed forces.

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Koehl, Dan (2024). Sultan Iskandar Muda of Aceh, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=1045. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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