Sumatra Who Sent an Envoy To China

Sumatra also spelled Sumatera is an island in western Indonesia westernmost of the sunda Islands It is the largest island entirely in Indonesia two larger islands borneo and new Guinea are shared between Indonesia and other countries and the sixth largest island in the world at with a population of Its biggest city is medan with a population the earliest known use of the name is in the title of 11th century king haji sumatrabhuji King of the Land of Sumatra citation needed but settler colonies were arriving in sumatra and several significant kingdoms flourished there.



Sumatra boasts a huge range of plant and animal species but has lost almost it's tropical rainforest in the last years and many species are critically endangered such as sumatran tiger sumatran rhino and sumatran orangutan sumatra was known in ancient times by the sanskrit names of swarnadwīpa Island of gold and swarnabhūmi land of gold due likely to the gold deposits of the island's highland the first word mentioning the name of sumatra was the name of srivijayan Haji king
sumatrabhumi King of the land of sumatra who sent an envoy to China in Arab geographers referred to the island as lamri lamuri lambri or ramni in the centuries in reference to a kingdom near modern day Banda Aceh which was the first landfall for traders.


Which flourished in the century CE in southern sumatra Kantoli was replaced by the Empire of srivijaya and then later by the Kingdom of samudra srivijaya was a buddhist monarchy centered in what is now Palembang dominating the region through trade and conquest throughout the centuries the Empire helped spread the malay culture throughout sumatra malay Peninsula and western borneo the empire was a thalassocracy or maritime power that extended its influence from island to island.