About Banten Sultanate

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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Country: Indonesia
Inception: 1527

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Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image by Jaume Ollé via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Banten Sultanate

sultanate located in north west Java, which functioned as one of the main hubs of the early modern spice trade

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