Raja Ungu or Ratu Ungu (Thai: รายาอูงู) ruled the Sultanate of

Patani Patani Darussalam ( Bahasa Malayu Arabic : , also sometimes Patani Raya or Patani Besar, "Greater Patani"; th, ปาตานี) is a historical region in the Malay peninsula. It includes the southern Thai provinces of Pattani, Yala (Ja ...

(1624–1635), succeeding her sister

Raja Biru Raja Biru or Ratu Biru ( th, รายาบีรู; ms, راتو بيرو; c. 1566–1624) ruled the Sultanate of Patani (1616–1624), succeeding her sister Raja Hijau. She was the second of three daughters of Sultan Mansur Shah who ruled the ...

. In Malay, her name means the "purple queen." She was the third successive and last daughter of

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to rule the country and was succeeded by her daughter

Raja Kuning Raja Kuning or Ratu Kuning was the sovereign queen of Patani in the 17th century. Her name means "the Yellow Queen" in English. She succeeded her mother, Queen Raja Ungu. She was the last of four female rulers to have ruled in succession in the P ...

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Raja Ungu was married to the king of

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. After the king died, Raja Biru send for her to return to Patani. When Raja Biru died around 1624, Raja Ungu succeeded her as ruler of Patani. Raja Ungu showed more antipathy towards the Siamese than her predecessors, and abandoned the title Siamese title ''peracau'', using instead the title ''paduka syah alam'' ("her excellency ruler of the world"). She launched an attack on Siam with 3,000 men in 1624 and early 1625, which ended apparently successfully as Siam was said to have renounced claim on Patani. She married off her daughter (who later became

) to the ruler of

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Sultan Abdul Jalil Shah III in 1632. However, her daughter was already married to the king of Bordelong (Phatthalung), Okphaya Déca, who then urged the Siamese to attack Patani. Following the usurpation of the throne of Ayudhya by King Prasartthong in 1629, she also refused to send the ''

bunga mas The bunga emas dan perak ( "golden and silver flowers", th, ต้นไม้เงินต้นไม้ทอง ), often abbreviated to bunga mas ( Jawi: "golden flowers"), was a tribute sent every three years to the king of Ayutthaya ( ...

'' (golden flowers) which were typically sent as a sign of Patani's tributary status to Siam. In 1632, Ayudhya sent an army south together with their ally in Ligor to quell her rebellion, but the attack was repulsed. A subsequent attack by Siam in 1634 was supposed to be joined by the

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but the latter's ships arrived too late and again the attack failed. Although Patani managed to repel the attacks, trade in Patani fell significantly. Finally in 1636, just following the death of Raja Ungu, a peace settlement was reached to restore relations between the two countries.

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