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Sulu Sultanate

Also known as: Sultanate of Sulu

ca. 1405–1915 Sulu Archipelago First established: cycle-260513-the-19th-century-sulu-sultanate-s-commod

A centralized maritime polity characterized by a contested tension between Sultanate prerogative and Datu-led autonomy.

Claims (2)

Plausible

Sulu maritime networks bypassed Spanish blockades by exploiting seasonal monsoons and specialized shadow routes.

1 cycle

3 sources

Plausible

The Sulu Sultanate maintained resistance through a commodity-for-arms exchange of trepang, coffee, and pearls for European weaponry.

1 cycle

3 sources

Sources

Tier A — Primary

Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson (eds.). The Philippine Islands, 1493–1803 (Volume 41) (1903)

primary · textual-colonial · Project Gutenberg

Tier A — Primary

Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson (eds.). The Philippine Islands, 1493–1803 (Volume 27) (1903)

primary · textual-colonial · Project Gutenberg

Tier A — Primary

Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson (eds.). The Philippine Islands, 1493–1803 (Volume 16) (1903)

primary · textual-colonial · Project Gutenberg

Tier A — Primary

Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson (eds.). The Philippine Islands, 1493–1803 (Volume 37) (1903)

primary · textual-colonial · Project Gutenberg

Tier A — Primary

Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson (eds.). The Philippine Islands, 1493–1803 (Volume 38) (1903)

primary · textual-colonial · Project Gutenberg

Tier A — Primary

Antonio de Morga. History of the Philippine Islands (1609)

primary · textual-colonial · Local corpus

Cycle Provenance

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