Nagur (Nagu'er, Na-ku-erh)

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by Caroline Stone

A place in the Peudada (the Portuguese Pirada) region of Sumatra, between Lide and Pasai. The name is probably a transliteration of the Sanskrit Nagara, 'city'. "The people were an advanced establishment of the Bataks and the possessed sufficient strength to cut off Semudera [Samudra-Pasai] from its vassal Li-tai [Lide]".

- adapted from J. V. G. Mills, Ma Huan, p. 121, n. 2