Polity · 1529 CE – 1813 CE
Sultanate of Banten
- Peak recorded area
- 84,970 km²
- 1572 CE
- Rulers on record
- 12
- from 1552 CE
Overview
The Banten Sultanate was a Bantenese Islamic trading kingdom founded in the 16th century and centred in 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.
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Territory
13 dated territorial extents on record from Cliopatria. Areas are measured off the recorded polygons; the line steps because each extent holds until the next one is recorded — nothing is interpolated.
Rulers
12 on record with dated reigns. Reign years follow the house convention: BCE years are negative.
- Maulana HasanuddinSultan of Banten1552 CE – 1570 CE
- Maulana YusufSultan of Banten1570 CE – 1580 CE
- Maulana MuhammadSultan of Banten1580 CE – 1596 CE
- Abu al-MafakhirSultan of Banten1596 CE – 1651 CE
- Abu al-Ma'aliSultan of Banten1635 CE – 1650 CE
- TirtayasaSultan of Banten1651 CE – 1683 CE
- Abu an-NasrSultan of Banten1683 CE – 1687 CE
- Abu al-FadhlSultan of Banten1687 CE – 1690 CE
- Abu al-MahasinSultan of Banten1690 CE – 1733 CE
- Syifa ZainularifinSultan of Banten1733 CE – 1750 CE
- Wasi ZainulaliminSultan of Banten1752 CE – 1753 CE
- Maulana Muhammad ShafiuddinSultan of Banten1809 CE – 1813 CE
Sources
Every figure above comes from one of these. Nothing on this page is estimated, interpolated or model-generated.
Seshat Global History Databank. Cliopatria: a historical basemap of polity borders (cliopatria.geojson).
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Sultanate of Banten is one of the polities with a sourced record deep enough to publish.