The Salakanagara Kingdom is the first historically recorded Indianised kingdom in Western Java. The kingdom existed between 130-362 AD.
Claudius Ptolemaeus (160 AD) wrote about Java in his book, ''Geographie Hypogenesis''. He mentions the name of Argyre Chora (meaning: Silver Nation) in Labadio. According to the historian, Labadio means Dwipa-Javaka, Dwipa-Javaka or Java Dwipa, which is the ancient name of Java Island. There was one kingdom which rule west coast Java in 160 AD, Salakanagara. Salakanagara means “Silver Nation”. It reinforces the theory that Ptolemaeus may have visited Java in 160 AD.
A relatively modern literature in the 17th century Pustaka Rajya Rajya i Bhumi Nusantara describes Salakanagara as being founded by an Indian merchant from Pallava Kingdom.

Historiography

The history of Salakanagara is quite mysterious as the historical and archaeological sources are scarce. Compared to its successor, Tarumanagara, the kingdom did not leave any local tangible historical records and relics such as inscriptions or temples ruins. The main source of Salakanagara's history was a manuscript ''Pustaka Rajya-rajya I Bhumi Nusantara'' composed in 17th century by a council led by Prince Wangsakerta of Cirebon, and a few Chinese records.

History

According to ''Pustaka Rajya Rajya i Bhumi Nusantara'', Salakanagara was located on west coast of Java, in the present day Banten province. It was founded by Dewawarman, stylised as Prabu Dharmalokapala Dewawarman Gangga Raksagapura Sagara. Dewawarman was an Indian ambassador or trader sent from India to establish relations with Javadwipa. According to a history record from India, the kingdom ruled Javadwipa from 130 CE to 362 CE. The founder of the kingdom was ''Aki Tirem''. The kings of Salakanagara were: #Dewa warman I (130-168 AD) #Dewawarman II (168-195 AD) #Dewawarman III (195-238 AD) #Dewawarman IV (238-252 AD) #Dewawarman V (252-276 AD) #Mahisa Suramardini Warmandewi (276-289 AD) #Dewawarman VI (289-308 AD) #Dewawarman VII (308-340 AD) #Sphatikarnawa Warmandewi (340-348 AD) #Dewawarman VIII (348-362 AD) Indonesian historian Edi S. Ekajati argued that Salakanagara is

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. a mythical island of silver in Greek and Roman mythology because Salakanagara means "country of silver" in Sanskrit. Salakanagara was replaced by Tarumanagara.

Subordinate kingdoms

Salakanagara was in charge of small kingdoms, which were founded by people from the Dewawarman dynasty (the kings who ruled Salakanagara). Kingdoms that are subordinate to Salakanagara include: * Ujung Kulon Kingdom Ujung Kulon Kingdom is located in the Ujung Kulon region and was founded by Senapati Bahadura Harigana Jayasakti (Dewawarman I's younger brother). When this kingdom was led by Darma Satyanagara, the king married the daughter of Dewawarman III and later became the 4th king in the Kingdom of Salakanagara. When Tarumanagara grew into a large kingdom, Purnawarman (the third Tarumanagara king) conquered the Ujung Kulon Kingdom. Eventually Ujung Kulon Kingdom became the subordinate kingdom of Tarumanagara. More than that, the Ujung Kulon Royal troops also helped the troops of Wisnuwarman (the fourth king of Tarumanagara) to quell the Cakrawarman rebellion. * Kingdom of Tanjung Kidul The Kingdom of Tanjung Kidul has thousands of cities in Aghrabintapura (now including the South Cianjur region). This kingdom was led by Sweta Liman Sakti (Dewawarman I's second sister).

Location

There are three locations that have been approved as the center of the Salakanagara Kingdom. They are Teluk Lada ( Pandeglang, Banten), Condet (

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) and Mount Salak (

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