Empire · approximate1405 – 1915 · 510 years
Sultanate of Sulu
Overview
The Sultanate of Sulu was a Sunni Muslim Tausūg state that ruled the Sulu Archipelago, coastal areas of Zamboanga City, and certain portions of Palawan in today's Philippines, alongside parts of present-day Sabah and North Kalimantan in north-eastern Borneo.
Wikipedia: Sultanate of Sulu·CC BY-SA 4.0
Borders & accuracy
Dashed borders mark empires whose extent we can date but whose precise frontiers are contested or undocumented.
- SOURCEapproximate cultural extent (no primary GIS source)
- DETAILapproximate-cultural-extent
- SNAPSHOT1700
- POLITY TYPEstate
Also during this period
No conflict record yet names this polity as a belligerent; these overlap its dates only.
- Taiping Rebellion1850–64World-changing · 30M dead
- World War I1914–18World-changing · 20M dead
- Thirty Years' War1618–48World-changing · 8.0M dead
- Eastern Front (World War I)1914–18World-changing · 6.0M dead
- Timurid Invasions1368–1405World-changing · 5.0M dead
- Portuguese Conquest of Brazil1500–1750World-changing · 5.0M dead
Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1405 and fits the map to these borders.
Cite as: Sultanate of Sulu (1405 – 1915). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/asia-sultanate-sulu · Sources & methodology