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According to the Deśavarṇana, an Old Javanese poem completed in 1365, vassal states of the Majapahit Empire spread throughout much of today's Indonesia, making it possibly the largest empire ever to exist in Southeast Asia, though the true character of its control over these territories is unclear.
- Mataram Sultanate (1587-1755). This hegemon dominated Java at a time when the Dutch and Portuguese were first beginning to establish long-term relationships with polities in Asia.
- Rattanakosin Empire (1782-1932). The Rattanakosin arose out of the ashes of the Ayutthaya empire in the late 18th century, and is largely responsible for keeping Thailand unoccupied by European powers in the late 19th century, when European imperialism was at its zenith.
- Khmer Empire (800-1430). Long before the Khmer Rouge took socialism to its logical conclusion and butchered millions of people, there was a vast, powerful empire whose capital city rested at Angkor Wat in present-day Cambodia.
- Aceh Sultanate (1496-1903). The first Muslim polity to make the list, Aceh was a powerful commercial empire located below Thailand and above the densely-populated island of Java.
It began as early as 4000 bce, when Taiwan was populated from the Asian mainland, and subsequently it continued southward through the northern Philippines (3rd millennium bce), central Indonesia (2nd millennium bce), and western and eastern Indonesia (2nd and 1st millennia bce).
- William H. Frederick
History of Southeast Asia - Classical Period, Trade, Empires: By about 1300 much of Southeast Asia had entered a period of transition from ancient times. No single factor can account for the disruption, which lasted longer in some places than in others.
- William H. Frederick
Toungoo, led by its ambitious king Tabinshwehti and his deputy Gen. Bayinnaung, would go on to reunify the petty kingdoms that had existed since the fall of the Pagan Empire, and found the largest empire in the history of Southeast Asia.
The First Toungoo Empire (Burmese: တောင်ငူ ခေတ်, [tàʊɴŋù kʰɪʔ]; also known as the First Toungoo Dynasty, the Second Burmese Empire or simply the Toungoo Empire) was the dominant power in mainland Southeast Asia in the second half of the 16th century.
At its peak, the Toungoo Empire was the largest and strongest empire in Southeast Asia. However, it collapsed in the 18 years following Bayinnaung's death in 1581.
