Melayu Kingdom

The Melayu Kingdom (also known as Malayu, Dharmasraya Kingdom or the Jambi Kingdom; is a classical Southeast Asian kingdom.

The primary sources for much of the information on the kingdom are the New History of the Tang, and the memoirs of the Chinese Buddhist monk Yijing, who visited in 671, and states was "absorbed" by Srivijaya by 692, but had "broken away" by the end of the eleventh century according to Chao Jukua.

The exact location of the kingdom is the subject of studies among historians.

One theory is that the kingdom was established around present-day Jambi on Sumatra, Indonesia, approximately three hundred kilometers north of Palembang.

According to this theory, it was founded by ethnic groups in the Batanghari river area and gold traders from the Minangkabau hinterland.

The theory is disputed as the geographical location of Jambi contradicts the descriptions by Yijing, who explicitly mentioned that the kingdom is located half-way between Ka-Cha (Kedah) and Bogha (Palembang).

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