Maulana Hasanuddin (also spelled Hasanuddin) was a ruler of the

Banten Sultanate The Banten Sultanate (كسلطانن بنتن) was a Bantenese Islamic trading kingdom founded in the 16th century and centred in Banten, a port city on the northwest coast of Java; the contemporary English name of both was Bantam. It is said ...

from c. 1552 to 1570. Hasanuddin was a

Azmatkhan Azmatkhan ( ar-at, عظمة خان, Aẓama Khān) al-Husayni, also spelled Azmat Khan, Azhmatkhan, al-Azhamatkhan or al-Azhamat Chan ( ur, ) are a family originating in Hadhramaut. They trace their lineage to Sayyid Abd al-Malik Azmatkhan ibn Ala ...

i Ba 'Alawi

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, the son of

Sunan Gunungjati Sunan Gunungjati (1448–1568) was one of the Wali Songo, or nine saints of Islam revered in Indonesia. He founded the Sultanate of Banten, as well as the Sultanate of Cirebon on the north coast of Java. Gunungjati was born Syarif Hidayatullah ...

and Nyai Ratu Kawunganten. He extended the domains of Banten to the

pepper Pepper or peppers may refer to: Food and spice * Piperaceae or the pepper family, a large family of flowering plant ** Black pepper * ''Capsicum'' or pepper, a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family Solanaceae ** Bell pepper ** Chili ...

-producing region of

Lampung Lampung (Lampung: ), officially the Province of Lampung ( id, Provinsi Lampung) is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the southern tip of the island of Sumatra. It has a short border with the province of Bengkulu to the northwest, and a ...

, in South

Sumatra Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 (182,812 mi.2), not including adjacent i ...

. This area, which already had long-standing ties with West Java, facilitated Banten's rise to prominence as a pepper port.M.C. Ricklefs, ''A History of Modern Indonesia Since c. 1300'', 2nd ed., Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994, p. 38

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