Aru Bay

Aru Bay opens onto the Strait of Malacca on the eastern coast of Sumatra. The bay and the coast between Tamiang and Deli were associated with Aru, a polity known to foreign merchants and chroniclers. Ships travelling through the strait passed this shore, where the mountains of the Bukit Barisan can be seen from the sea. In the sixteenth century Aru faced the expanding power of Aceh.