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The name Bulungan came from the Bulungan word Bulu Tengon which means 'real bamboo'. Due to the change in the Malay dialect, it changed to "Bulungan". The importance of the bamboo in the Bulungan identity stems from a boy born out of the bamboo named Jauwiru. From Jauwiru's descendants, the Bulungan Sultanate was born.
Bulungan Regency is a regency of North Kalimantan Province in Indonesia. It covers an area of 13,181.92 km 2 and had a population of 112,663 at the 2010 Census [2] and 151,844 at the 2020 Census; [3] the official estimate as at mid 2023 was 165,775 (comprising 87,393 males and 78,382 females). [1] The administrative centre is at Tanjung Selor.
There are various kingdoms and sultanates related to the history of the Malay people and other ethnicities on the island of Kalimantan (a.k.a. Borneo), such as Sanggau Kingdom, Pontianak Sultanate, Bulungan Sultanate, Berau Sultanate, Gunung Tabur Sultanate, Sambaliung Sultanate, Paser Sultanate, Kutai Sultanate, etc.
From this line a princely state was established, centered in Tanjung Selor, which had territory of Bulungan, Tana Tidung, Malinau, Nunukan, Tarakan, and some part of Sabah. Bulungan was a vassal of Berau, which in turn was a vassal of Kingdom of Kutai. During subsequent wars, the territory fell into the hands of Brunei and after agreements were ...
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The rise of the Muslim Tidung Sultanate molded the ethnogenesis character of the Tidung people. They collectively known as a Malayised Dayak (Indonesian: Dayak berbudaya Melayu or Dayak-Melayu) people of Kalimantan similar to other native Muslim coastal Borneo groups, such as the Bulungan, Kutainese, Banjarese and Paserese people.
[8] [9] [10] William Clark Cowie played an important role as a close friend of the Sultanate of Sulu in helping Overbeck to buy additional land on the eastern coast of Borneo. [11] [12] [13] Meanwhile, the Sultanate of Bulungan's influence also reached Tawau on the south-eastern coast, [14] but came under the influence of the more powerful ...
The Sultanate of Bulungan's influence was limited to the Tawau area, [71] which came under the influence of the Sulu Sultanate before gaining its own rule after the 1878 treaty between the British and Spanish governments.