Most of the work also contains his personal observations of the personalities of his time, the officials of the British East India Company like Sir Stamford Raffles, Colonel Farquhar and John Crawfurd, Sultan Hussein Shah of Johor Sultanate, European and American missionaries and traders, and the Chinese merchants of the early Singapore days.
The administrative centre of the empire was at various times at Sayong Pinang, Kota Kara, Seluyut, Johor Lama, Batu Sawar and Kota Tinggi; all on mainland Johor and later at Riau and Lingga.
Johor Sultanate, a former empire of the Malay Peninsula, sometimes known as Johor-Riau-Lingga
Johor | Johor Bahru | Delhi Sultanate | Ibrahim of Johor | Johor Darul Takzim F.C. | Sultanate of Darfur | Sultanate of Rum | Sultanate of Rûm | Johor River | Sultan of Johor | Sultanate of Damagaram | Madurai Sultanate | Johor Sultanate | Johor State Football Association | Alauddin Riayat Shah II of Johor | Abu Bakar of Johor | Warsangali Sultanate | Sungai Johor Bridge | Sultanate of Rüm | Sultan Ali of Johor | Sennar (sultanate) | Mataram Sultanate | Kilwa Sultanate | Kembara Mahkota Johor | Johor Sultan's mosque | Johor Bahru railway station | Iskandar of Johor | Ifat Sultanate | Gujarat Sultanate | Delhi sultanate |
The younger of the second Prince, Raja Raden Ali would in a few years become the second ruler of Johor Sultanate as Sultan Alauddin Riayat Shah for 36 years.