Kedah

Population

In 1995 the population broke up as follows: Malayan (1 079.300/72%), Chinese (235 500/19%), Indians (105 800/8%), others (24 200), others Bumiputra S (1 500).

History

According to a Malayan chronicle, the Hikayat Merong Mahawangsa , Kedah would have been rested by a prince hindouist.

In the neighborhoods of 250 after J. - C., of the Chinese texts mention a kingdom of the name of Ka-your-ha located at the site of current Kedah.

One found in the valley of Bujang of the Hindu-Buddhist vestiges which one dated from Ve century after J. - C.

The name of Kedah is attested as of XIVe century after J. - C. the Nagarakertagama , a poem epic writes in 1365 in the kingdom java are born from Majapahit, mentions, among some hundred " regions tributaires" kingdom, Keda and Lengkasuka. A Malayan tradition said that the kingdom of Langkasuka was in Kedah.

Actually, the territory controlled by Majapahit did not extend that on part of the east and center of Java. " regions tributaires" were in fact of the counters forming a sales network whose Majapahit was the center. Majapahit sent to it dignitaries of which the role was to make sure that these counters were not devoted to a private trade which would escape the kingdom.

In 1620, Kedah is conquered by the sultan Iskandar Muda of Aceh in the north of Sumatra (reign 1607-36), at the same time as Pahang.

In 1622, the Ungu princess goes up on the throne of the Royaume of Patani. She arranges for remarier her daughter, that her aunt, the preceding queen, had married with Siamese prince Okya Decho, with the sultan of Johor. Okya Decho, furious, obtains from its suzerain, the king of Ayutthaya, the permission to carry out Siamese troops to attack Patani. Ungu obtains supports it Pahang and Johor. The Siamese attack fails.

Ungu will follow a anti-Siamese policy and will refuse for example to be made call by its Siamese title of will phra chao (" princesse"). When prince Prasart Thong seizes the power with Ayutthaya and is made crown king in 1630, Ungu refuses to pay him tribute. In 1633, Ayutthaya recruits troops to subject Patani. King de Kedah intervenes like mediator. Ayutthaya finally decides to rather send an embassy to Patani.

In 1813, the district of Setul is placed under the administration of a governor Siam ois named by the principality of Nakhon If Thammarat. In 1897 Setul, that the Siamese ones call Satun, is attached to the monthon (area) of Triburi. Finally within the framework of the anglo-Siamese Treated of 1909 , Setul is separated from Kedah because of its important population Thai E.

Economy

Kedah is regarded as the rice reserve of the country. The landscape is composed of rice plantations and surmounted plains of hills limestones.

The highway and the railway make it possible to communicate with Kuala Lumpur and Hat Yai in Thailand.

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