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The Sultanate of Buton was an indigenous sultanate in what is today Indonesia. [1] It used to rule over Buton island and adjacent areas within present-day Southeast Sulawesi province. [ 1 ] It was a constitutional monarchy with its own written constitution and law, complete with bodies acting as a legislature , a system of judiciary , and ...
Buton and surrounding islands. Buton (also Butung, Boeton or Button) is an island in Indonesia located off the southeast peninsula of Sulawesi.It covers roughly 4,727 square kilometers in area, or about the size of Madura; it is the 129th largest island in the world and Indonesia's 19th largest in area.
It was known as the first Hindu kingdom in present-Indonesia known as the Kutai Martadipura Kingdom founded by king Kudungga in the 4th century CE, then the Sultanate of Kutai Kartanegara ing Martadipura was formed later in the 15th century after the royalties converted to Islam.
Baubau is bordered to the north by the Buton Strait (between Buton Island and Muna Island), to the east and south by the Buton Regency districts Kapontori and Pasarwajo, and to the west by South Buton Regency's Kadatua District. [17] [18] The topographical condition of Baubau consists mostly of mountains and hills above a long coast.
The Kingdom of Luwu (also Luwuq or Wareq) was a polity located in the northern part of the modern-day South Sulawesi province of Indonesia, on the island of Sulawesi. It is considered one of the earliest known Buginese kingdoms in Sulawesi, founded between the 10th and 14th century. However, recent archaeological research has challenged this ...
The original Buton Regency was formed in 1959 with a much wider area, including most of the island districts in the south of the province, but on 21 June 2001 the town of Bau-Bau was separated out to become an independent city, and on 18 December 2003 two new regencies were formed from parts of Buton Regency - Bombana Regency to the west and Wakatobi Regency to the east.
This regency was formed from the southern part of Buton Regency, from which it was separated by Act No.16 of 2014, dated 23 July 2014. It covers an area of 546.58 km 2 , and the population of the districts now comprising the new regency was 74,974 at the 2010 Census [ 3 ] and 95,261 at the 2020 Census; [ 4 ] the official estimate as at mid 2023 ...
The Central Buton Regency is divided into seven districts (kecamatan), [6] [7] tabulated below with their areas and 2010 [3] and 2020 Census [4] populations, together with the official estimates as at mid 2023. [2]