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Banten Sultanate
The Banten Sultanate (, ) was a Bantenese people, Bantenese Islamic trading sultanate, kingdom founded in the 16th century and centred in Bantam (city), Banten, a port city on the northwest coast of Java; the contemporary English name of both was Bantam. It is said to have been founded by Sunan Gunungjati, who had previously founded Cirebon. Once a great trading centre in Southeast Asia, especially of Black pepper, pepper, the kingdom reached its apogee in the late 16th and mid-17th centuries. By the late 17th century, it was overshadowed by Batavia, Dutch East Indies, Batavia and was finally annexed to the Dutch East Indies in 1813. Its core territory now forms the Provinces of Indonesia, Indonesian province of Banten. Today, in Old Banten, the Great Mosque of Banten is an important destination for tourists and for pilgrims from across Indonesia and from overseas. Formation Prior to 1526, a settlement called Banten was situated about ten kilometres inland from the coast on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Maulana Hasanuddin Of Banten
Maulana Hasanuddin (also spelled Hasanuddin) was the first Sultan of Banten Sultanate, Banten, ruling from c. 1552 to 1570. Hasanuddin was a Azmatkhani Sayyid, the son of Sunan Gunungjati and Nyai Ratu Kawunganten. He extended the domains of Banten to the black pepper, pepper-producing region of Lampung, in South Sumatra. 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 Notes Sultans of Banten 16th-century monarchs in Asia 1570 deaths Indonesian people of Arab descent People from the Malay Archipelago {{indonesia-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
