Mentok

Mentok is a town in the Indonesian territory of Bangka-Belitung, Indonesia. Mentok is the capital of the West Bangka Regency. Mentok is the site of the greatest tin smelter on the world. Mentok alludes to the tip of the island. Mentok was established at 1732 by Encek Wan Akub as request of Sultan Palembang Darussalam Sri Susuhan Mahmud Badaruddin I, starting as a little town comprising of 7 wooden houses for the Royal group of Encek Wan Abdul Jabbar, father-in-law of sultan Badaruddin I of Palembang Darussalam who was hitched his girl Zamnah for his second spouse from Siantan Natuna.

Encek Wan Akub found a lot of tin metal at Ulim waterway, south Bangka Island on a voyage of disclosure with his mystery team and announced it to sultan Badaruddin I of Palembang Darussalam. By endorsement of sultan Badaruddin I of Palembang Darussalam, Encek Wan Akub requested his nephew Wan Serin to go to look for tin excavators in Johor, Siam and Campa and begin tin mining on Bangka Island. From that time Muntok turn into an exporter of tin ingots and was filled by dealer ships from numerous nations including the Dutch East India Company.

In 1812 the British East India Company caught Muntok, renamed it Minto,and utilized it as their base camp in Fort Nugent of Tandjoeng Kaleang to assault Palembang Darussalam for syndication of the tin trade. After the Anglo Dutch Treaty of 1814 of every 1816 the British left Bangka Island and Mentok to the Dutch. In 1913 the Dutch Indies Government moved the capital of the Bangka-Belitung Residency from Mentok to Pangkal Pinang.