Earliest Portuguese Sources for The History of Jakarta

The Earliest Portuguese Sources for the History of Jakarta
by A. Heuken SJ (Author)

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Paperback

Publisher: Yayasan Cipta Loka Caraka (2002)


ASIN: B000ITGBJW
Five years before Jakarta was born, s Portuguese captain from Malacca, Henrique Leme, cocluded a treaty with the representatives of the Hindu Kingdom in Pajajaran in the harbour town of Sunda Kelapa on the 21st August 1522. Sunda Kelapa is the oldest name of the Indonesia Capital.
The book provides the reader with at all still existent original sources for the history of Jakarta before the arrival of the first Dutch ship in 1596. The earliest sources are batutulis or stone inscriptions in Sanksrit letters, Chinese reports and Japanese safe conducts for sailors, but the main body of this book consists of Portuguese reports, notary deeds and maps of the 16th century. They provide us with a wealth of knowledge about early Sunda.


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