What the records say
- When
- 1824
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Where
- Bencoolen
- Coordinates
- 3.80° S, 102.26° E
- Process
- cession
- Type
- Cession (part yielded to other entity)
- Pop
- 93875
- Area km2
- 25089
- Gaining
- Netherlands
- Losing
- United Kingdom
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
British Bencoolen
Former British possession in Sumatra
British Bencoolen, variously known during its existence as Fort York, Fort Marlborough, Bencoolen, Benkulu, or "the West Coast", was a possession of the British East India Company (EIC) extending nearly 500 miles along the southwestern coast of Sumatra and centered on the area of what is now Bengkulu City. The EIC established a presence there in 1685, and in 1714 it built Fort Marlborough there.
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The source
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War ProjectCorrelates of War: free use with citation