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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 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 made with the Sultanate of Sulu, the territory officially came under Sulu control.
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.
[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 ...
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The adjectival form of the word is "sultanic", [1] and the state and territories ruled by a sultan, as well as his office, are referred to as a sultanate (سلطنة salṭanah). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The term is distinct from king ( ملك malik ), though both refer to a sovereign ruler.
S. Saadi Sultanate; Salawati Kingdom; Samudera Pasai Sultanate; Sultanate of Sarawak; Seljuk Empire; Kingdom of Setul Mambang Segara; Subeihi; Sultanate of Bacan
The Sultanate of Sulu (Tausug: Kasultanan sin Sūg; Malay: Kesultanan Suluk; Filipino: Kasultanan ng Sulu) was a Sunni Muslim state [note 1] that ruled the Sulu Archipelago, coastal areas of Zamboanga City and certain portions of Palawan in the today's Philippines, alongside parts of present-day Sabah and North Kalimantan in north-eastern Borneo.