Banten Sultanate
The Banten Sultanate (Sundanese: ᮊᮞᮥᮜ᮪ᮒᮔᮔ᮪ ᮘᮔ᮪ᮒᮨᮔ᮪, كسلطانن بنتن, romanized: Kasultanan Banten) 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.
Sultanate of Banten ᮊᮞᮥᮜ᮪ᮒᮔᮔ᮪ ᮘᮔ᮪ᮒᮨᮔ᮪ كسلطانن بنتن Kasultanan Banten | |||||||||||||||||
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Rough extent of Banten at the death of Hasanudin, controlling both sides of Sunda Strait | |||||||||||||||||
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| Capital | Old Banten, Serang | ||||||||||||||||
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| Religion | Islam | ||||||||||||||||
| Government | Sultanate | ||||||||||||||||
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• 1552–1570 | Sultan Maulana Hasanuddin | ||||||||||||||||
• 1651–1683 | Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa | ||||||||||||||||
• 1809–1813 | Sultan Maulana Muhammad Shafiuddin | ||||||||||||||||
• 2016–now | Sultan Syarif Muhammad ash-Shafiuddin | ||||||||||||||||
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• Conquest of the Kingdom of Sunda | 1527 | ||||||||||||||||
• Independence from Cirebon Sultanate | 1552 | ||||||||||||||||
• Fall of Jayakarta | 1619 | ||||||||||||||||
• Client state of VOC | 1683 | ||||||||||||||||
• Annexed by the French Empire | 1808 | ||||||||||||||||
• Annexed by the Dutch East Indies | 1813 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Today part of | Indonesia | ||||||||||||||||
Once a great trading centre in Southeast Asia, especially of pepper, the kingdom reached its apogee in the late 16th and mid-17th centuries. By the late 17th century, it was overshadowed by Batavia and was finally annexed to the Dutch East Indies in 1813.
Its core territory now forms the Indonesian province of Banten. Today, in Old Banten, the Great Mosque of Banten is an important destination for tourists and for pilgrims from across Indonesia and from overseas.