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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 ...
Bulan (meaning "elk" [1] or "hart" in Old Turkic) was a Khazar ruler, and the founder of the Bulanid dynasty. He is usually identified as being the same with Sabriel , the king who led the khazar conversion to Judaism , and thus he is sometimes referred to as Bulan Sabriel.
The Khazar king Joseph gave the following account of the genealogy of the Bulanids.. Since [the time of the conversion to Judaism], when my fathers entered into this religion, the God of Israel has humbled all of their enemies, subjecting every folk and tongue round about them, whether Christian, Muslim, or pagan.
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.
Buton Palace Fortress, originally the Wolio Palace, is a late 16th century palatial fortress located in Baubau, Southeast Sulawesi. The palace was built in the late 16th century for Sultan Buton III, La Sangaji titled Sultan Kaimuddin (1591-1596) and was the residence of the Buton Sultanate . [ 1 ]
Kalingga (Javanese: Karajan Kalingga; Chinese: 訶陵; pinyin: Hēlíng; Middle Chinese: [hɑ.lɨŋ]) or She-po or She-bo (Chinese: 闍婆; pinyin: Shépó; Middle Chinese: [d͡ʑia.buɑ]) in Chinese sources, [1] or Ho-ling in Arabic scriptures of Umayyad Caliphate era; [2] was a 6th-century Indianized kingdom [broken anchor] on the north coast of Central Java, Indonesia.
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.
Butonese people are well known for their culture and until today it can still be seen in regions of the Buton Sultanate. Such as the fortress of the Butonese palace which is the largest fortress in the world, the Malige Palace which is a traditional Butonese house that stands firmly as high as four stories without using a single nail, [ 4 ] the ...