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Name: bulungan sultanate

Type: Cluster

Start: 1732 AD

End: 1880 AD

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The cluster includes all the forms of the country.

The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:

  • Bulungan Sultanate
  • Bulungan Sultanate (Netherlands)
  • Establishment


  • January 1732: The Bulungan Sultanate was founded by the Uma Apan, a Kayan group from the Apo Kayan region. They settled near the coast in the 17th century, establishing their rule in actual North Kalimantan in 1731.
  • Chronology


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    1. Events


  • January 1801: Territorial evolution of the Sultanate of Brunei.

  • January 1851: In 1850, the Dutch, who had conquered Berau in 1834 and imposed their sovereignty upon Kutai in 1848, signed with the Sultan of Bulungan a Politiek Contract. The Dutch intervened in the region to combat piracy and the trafficking in slaves.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 1881: The Sultanate of Bulungan was finally incorporated into the colonial empire of the Dutch East Indies in the 1880s.
  • Selected Sources


  • Pluvier, J. M. (1995): Historical Atlas of South-East Asia, Leiden (Netherlands), maps 17, 38, 54
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