Polity · 1136 CE – 2017 CE
Sultanate of Kedah
- Peak recorded area
- 18,587 km²
- 1294 CE
- Rulers on record
- 28
- from 1136 CE
Overview
The Kedah Sultanate is a Muslim dynasty located in the Malay Peninsula. It was originally an independent state, but became a British protectorate in 1909. Its monarchy was abolished after it was added to the Malayan Union but was restored and added to the Malayan Union's successor, the Federation of Malaya.
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Territory
13 dated territorial extents on record from Cliopatria. Areas are measured off the recorded polygons; the line steps because each extent holds until the next one is recorded — nothing is interpolated.
Rulers
28 on record with dated reigns. Reign years follow the house convention: BCE years are negative.
- Sultan Mudzafar Shah ISultan of Kedah1136 CE – 1179 CE
- Sultan Mu'adzam ShahSultan of Kedah1179 CE – 1201 CE
- Muhammad Shah of KedahSultan of Kedah1201 CE – 1236 CE
- Sultan Mudzaffar Shah IISultan of Kedah1236 CE – 1280 CE
- Sultan Mahmud Shah ISultan of Kedah1280 CE – 1321 CE
- Sultan Ibrahim ShahSultan of Kedah1321 CE – 1373 CE
- Sultan Sulaiman Shah ISultan of Kedah1373 CE – 1422 CE
- Sultan Ataullah Muhammad Shah ISultan of Kedah1422 CE – 1472 CE
- Sultan Muhammad Jiwa Zainal Adilin ISultan of Kedah1472 CE – 1506 CE
- Sultan Mahmud Shah IISultan of Kedah1506 CE – 1546 CE
- Sultan Mudzaffar Shah IIISultan of Kedah1546 CE – 1602 CE
- Sultan Sulaiman Shah IISultan of Kedah1602 CE – 1625 CE
- Sultan Rijaluddin Muhammad ShahSultan of Kedah1625 CE – 1651 CE
- Sultan Muhyiddin Mansur ShahSultan of Kedah1651 CE – 1661 CE
- Sultan Dziaddin Mukarram ShahSultan of Kedah1661 CE – 1687 CE
- Sultan Ataullah Muhammad Shah IISultan of Kedah1687 CE – 1698 CE
- Sultan Abdullah Mu'adzam ShahSultan of Kedah1698 CE – 1706 CE
- Sultan Ahmad Tajuddin Halim Shah ISultan of Kedah1706 CE – 1709 CE
- Sultan Muhammad Jiwa Zainal Adilin IISultan of Kedah1710 CE – 1778 CE
- Sultan Abdullah Mukarram ShahSultan of Kedah1778 CE – 1797 CE
- Dziaddin Mukarram Shah II of KedahSultan of Kedah1797 CE – 1803 CE
- Sultan Ahmad Tajuddin Halim Shah IISultan of Kedah1803 CE – 1821 CE
- Sultan Zainal Rashid Al-Mu'adzam Shah ISultan of Kedah1843 CE – 1854 CE
- Sultan Ahmad Tajuddin Mukarram ShahSultan of Kedah1854 CE – 1879 CE
- Sultan Zainal Rashid Mu'adzam Shah IISultan of Kedah1879 CE – 1881 CE
- Abdul Hamid Halim of KedahSultan of Kedah1881 CE – 1943 CE
- Badlishah of KedahSultan of Kedah1943 CE – 1958 CE
- Abdul Halim of KedahSultan of Kedah1958 CE – 2017 CE
Sources
Every figure above comes from one of these. Nothing on this page is estimated, interpolated or model-generated.
Seshat Global History Databank. Cliopatria: a historical basemap of polity borders (cliopatria.geojson).
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Sultanate of Kedah is one of the polities with a sourced record deep enough to publish.