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Aceh (pronounced Ah-chay) is an autonomous territory of Indonesia, located on the northern tip of the island of Sumatra. Past spellings of its name include Acheh, Atjeh and Achin. It is thought to have been in Aceh where Islam was first established in Southeast Asia. In the early seventeenth century the Sultanate of Aceh was the most wealthy, powerful and cultivated state in the Malacca Straits region. Aceh was the closest point of land to the epicenter of the massive 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, which triggered a tsunami that devastated much of the western coast of the region, including part of the capital of Banda Aceh. ... More