Bone State
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Bone or Bone State was a sultanate in the south-west peninsula of what is now Sulawesi, a province of modern-day Indonesia. It came under Dutch rule in 1905, and was succeeded by the Bone Regency.
Bola Soba, palace to receive guests; c. 1900-1920
Nicolaes Visscher Indiae Orientalis
Arung Palakka
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Sultan Saaduddin Arung Palakka, or La Tenritatta to Unru' was a 17th-century Bugis prince and warrior. He supported the Dutch East India Company in the Makassar War against the Gowa Sultanate in his n
Bone State
…Islam. Bone State later enjoyed a period of prosperity in the middle of the 17th century. Bone became the most powerful state of South Sulawesi under Arung (ruler of) Palakka, La Tenritatta (1634 or 1635 – 1696) who sided with the Dutch admiral Cornelis Speelman against the Makasar kingdom of Gowa-Tallo, which led to the…
Potrait by Romeyn de Hooghe
The Makassar War (1666–1669), which saw Palakka's rise to power in South Sulawesi.