Qualla: Sultanate of Singora https://qualla.com/sultanate-of-singora en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:36 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/1/r/9/sultanate-of-singora-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Sultanate of Singora https://qualla.com/sultanate-of-singora Sultanate of Singora: Introduction https://qualla.com/sultanate-of-singora/ Photo credit Chainwit.Derived from a work by user:Hdamm, CC BY-SA 4.0. An inscribed cannon stands next to the flagpole at the Royal Hospital Chelsea in London. Carved in Arabic script and inlaid with silver, one of its eleven inscriptions reads: "The seal of Sultan Sulaiman Shah, the Victorious King." The gun's journey to that English courtyard traces one of Southeast Asia's more improbable histories -- from a fortified port city on Thailand's southern coast, to the Siamese capital at Ayutthaya, to Burma after the sack of 1767, and finally to England as a trophy of the third Anglo-Burmese War. The city that made it, the Sultanate of Singora, has been ruins for more than three centuries. But the cannon endures, a bronze witness to a place that refused to submit quietly.

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/1/r/9/sultanate-of-singora-wp/w1r9-sultanate-of-singora-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Sultanate of Singora: A Persian on the Malay Peninsula https://qualla.com/sultanate-of-singora/ Photo credit Gryffindor, Public domain. Singora was founded in the early 17th century by Dato Mogol, a Persian Malay-Muslim who accepted Siamese suzerainty and paid tribute to the Kingdom of Ayutthaya. The city rose on the foothills of Khao Daeng Mountain, near the southern tip of the Sathing Phra peninsula, in what is...

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/1/r/9/sultanate-of-singora-wp/w1r9-sultanate-of-singora-a-persian-on-the-malay-peninsula.mp3 0:06 2 full Sultanate of Singora: The Sultan Who Declared Independence https://qualla.com/sultanate-of-singora/ Photo credit Qian long (empereur de Chine ; 1711-1799), Public domain. Dato Mogol died in 1620, and his eldest son Sulaiman inherited a city caught in the turbulence of Siamese politics. When the Queen of Pattani denounced Siam's new king, Prasat Thong, as a usurper, the region erupted. Ayutthaya blockaded Pattani with 60,000 troops and enlisted Dut...

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/1/r/9/sultanate-of-singora-wp/w1r9-sultanate-of-singora-the-sultan-who-declared-independence.mp3 0:06 3 full Sultanate of Singora: Siege and Ruin https://qualla.com/sultanate-of-singora/ Photo credit Singora, CC BY-SA 3.0. Sultan Sulaiman died in 1668 and was succeeded by his son Mustapha, who inherited both the city's independence and its enemies. War with Pattani erupted, but Singora -- outnumbered four to one -- rejected mediation by the Sultan of Kedah and trusted its experienced soldiers and c...

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/1/r/9/sultanate-of-singora-wp/w1r9-sultanate-of-singora-siege-and-ruin.mp3 0:06 4 full Sultanate of Singora: What the Mountain Remembers https://qualla.com/sultanate-of-singora/ Photo credit Singora, CC BY-SA 4.0. Khao Daeng Mountain still holds the evidence. Thailand's Ministry of Culture has documented the remains of fourteen forts on and around its slopes. Forts 4, 8, and 9 are well preserved: one is reached by steps behind an archaeological information center, another via a stairway ne...

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