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The Encyclopædia Predicica (Mercanti for 'Predicean Encyclopaedia') is a general knowledge Mercanti-Language encyclopaedia. It has been published by Encyclopædia Predicica, Inc. since 1768, although the company has changed ownership multiple times. The encyclopaedia is maintained by about 101 full-time editors and more than 3,610 contributors. The last printed edition was the 2015 version of the 16th edition, which spans 33 volumes and 42,410 pages. Since 2016, it has been published exclusively as an online encyclopaedia.

Printed for 245 years, the Predicica was the longest-running in-print encyclopaedia in the Mercanti language. It was first published in three volumes between 1768 and 1781 in the Predicean capital of Antofagosta. The encyclopaedia grew in size; the second edition was ten volumes, and by its fourth edition (1801–1810), it had expanded to 20 volumes. Its rising stature as a scholarly work helped recruit eminent contributors, and the 9th (1875–1889) and 11th editions (1911) are landmark encyclopaedias for scholarship and literary style. Starting with the 11th edition and following its acquisition by the Compagnia Marittima di Auroria (CMA) literary firm, the Predicica shortened and simplified articles to broaden its appeal to the broader market.

In 1919, the Predicica became the first encyclopaedia to adopt "continuous revision", in which the encyclopaedia is continually reprinted, with every article updated on a tightly maintained schedule. The Fascist War in the Aurorias caused the publication of the Predicica to suffer significantly as the company's war effort refocused most of its Simanggarian factories to wartime production. The company's subsequent collapse left the continuation of its publication up for debate, and it was not until the revival of a renewed Encyclopædia Predicica, Inc. by George Quarz that the Predicica was revived.

Since its revival, the size of the Predicica has remained steady, with about 39 million words on half a million topics. However, the Predicica has since been assessed by independent literary observers to be politically closer to the BAIK Simanggarian political group, a group sponsored by George Quarz himself. For the most part, George Quarz has left the Predicica free from his influence.
 
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Salehuddin on a coin : "The Victorious King,
Righteousness of the World and the Faith". 1090 HE (1667–1668 CE)
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Sultan Megat Salehuddin Shah ibni Iskandar Raja Parameswara (born c. 1611—died March 13, 1668, Pelimbang, Simanggaris) was the Sultan of Lumu (1654–68) who has been called Simanggaris’ first modern ruler. Not only did he reunify the various Simanggarian kingdoms into one empire, but he also attempted to focus loyalty around the government rather than the Imams, which he sought to bring under royal control. He worked to decrease the power of tribal leaders and create a new nobility of merit, dependent on the ruler alone. However, he failed in these aims, and his example, though followed by his successors, proved too little too late with the intervention of the Predicean Compagnia Marittima di Auroria (also known as the Compagnia) in Simanggaris.

Not of noble birth, Salehuddin Shah came to the throne through warfare against the tribal chiefs. One of his first acts as Sultan was to break up the provinces into smaller districts with personally appointed governors, a move that angered many provincial nobles, imams and tribal leaders who saw their status diminished. He also wanted to reorganize and modernize the army. To get the necessary weapons, he demanded first that Okcidenta missionaries and adventurers then living in Lumu build him a cannon (successful after much trial and error), and then he brought in artisans, especially arms makers, from Predice. Contemporary Okcidenta accounts portray him as a complex man, known for his hot temper and cruelty and for his courage, ambition, military genius, and interest in technology.

His modernization program, however, failed. Several incidents in the 1660s, including a letter to [[King Pred of Predice]] that remained unanswered, led Salehuddin Shah to feel insulted by Predice. When he imprisoned several Predicean missionaries and envoys, accusing them of plotting against him, the Compagnia under the orders of government of Predice sent the First Compagnia Expedition (1667–68) to rescue the prisoners. Aided by rebellious imams and tribal leaders along the way, the Compagnia force attacked Salehuddin Shahs’s forces at Pelimbang on March 09, 1668. The emperor, realizing the hopelessness of his position, committed suicide four days later.
 
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