Sonyine Malige Sultan's memorial museum. Tidore, North-Moluccas, Indonesia.
Wikipedia: Sultanate of Tidore (Indonesian: Kesultanan Tidore, sometimes Kerajaan Tidore) was a sultanate in Southeast Asia, centered on Tidore in the Spice Islands (presently in North Maluku Province). It was also known as Duko, its ruler carrying the title Kië ma-kolano (Ruler of the Mountain). Tidore was a rival of the Sultanate of Ternate for control of the spice trade, and had an important historical role as binding the archipelagic civilizations of Indonesia to the Papuan world. According to later historical traditions, the four kingdoms of North Maluku, Ternate, Tidore, Bacan, and Jailolo, had a common root. A story that arose after the introduction of Islam says that the common ancestor was an Arab, Jafar Sadik, who married a heavenly nymph (bidadari) and sired four sons, of whom Sahjati became the first kolano (ruler) of Tidore. The term kolano might be a Javanese loanword, pointing at early cultural influences from Java. The first eight kolanos are proto-historical as there are no contemporary sources on Tidore until the early 16th century. The ninth, Ciri Leliatu, was reportedly converted to Islam by an Arab, Syekh Mansur, and named his oldest son after the preacher. According to European sources, Islam was accepted by the North Malukan elite in about the 1460s-1470s. Ciri Leliatu's son Sultan al-Mansur ruled when the Portuguese first visited Maluku in 1512, and met the remnants of the Magellan expedition in 1521-22.[6] By that time the sultanate lived in an uneasy and ambiguous relation with its close neighbour Ternate. Though frequently at war, Tidore had a ritual precedence position since his daughters regularly married Ternatan sultans and princes.
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Location: Tidore, North Moluccas, Indonesia
Photo credit: © Bert de Ruiter / Alamy / Afripics
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