A stone inscription found at Kedukan Bukit near Palembang in southern Sumatra, dated 683 AD and written in Old Malay, records a military expedition by a ruler named Dapunta Hyang, and is the earliest evidence of Srivijaya, a Buddhist maritime empire. The Chinese pilgrim Yijing had stopped there in 671 on his way to India and described over 1,000 monks studying. Controlling the Straits of Malacca and Sunda, through which the trade between India and China passed, Srivijaya dominated South-East Asian commerce for some 500 years, spreading Buddhism and the Malay language. It declined after a Chola raid in 1025.
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- from 681 CE to 1018First Bulgarian Empire
- c. 683 CESrivijaya emerges as a maritime empire in Sumatra
- c. 683 CEEruption of Rabaul
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