Sultanate of Sulu
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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 prese
From left to right Royal Sultanate of Sulu Officers HRH Maharaja Adinda Datu Nizamuddin Serman Kiram, Secretary General & Royal Ambassador HH Datu Sadja Dr. Matthew Pajares Yngson Rajah of Tambulian, Vice Chancellor HH Datu Sadja Dr. William Chung Tang-Fong Rajah of Tongkil, HRM Sultan Muedzul Lail Tan Kiram 35th Sultan of Sulu, HRM Dayang Dayang Pangian Mellany Serman Kiram, HH Dayang Maria Isabel Nieto Delos Reyes, Chancellor Amir Bahar of Sulu HH Datu Kevin Randolph Carrion Limjoco, Royal Ambassador H.E. Apo Gloman Membrere Merritt Rajah of Samtoy & Luzon Ilocano
The first concession treaty was signed by Sultan Abdul Momin of Brunei on 29 December 1877, appointing Baron de Overbeck as the Maharaja Sabah, Rajah Gaya and Sandakan
The second concession treaty was signed by Sultan Jamal ul-Azam of Sulu on 22 January 1878 also appointing Baron de Overbeck as Dato Bendahara and Raja Sandakan
American military governor Hugh Lenox Scott meeting Jamalul Kiram II (c. 1905)
The Sultanate of Brunei or simply Brunei, also known as the Bruneian Empire, was a Malay sultanate centered around Brunei on the northern coast of Borneo in Southeast Asia. Brunei became a sovereign s
Sultanate of Sulu
…became his full regnal name; Sharif-ul Hashim is his abbreviated name. He settled in Buansa, Sulu. The sultanate gained its independence from the Bruneian Empire in 1578. At its peak, it stretched over the islands that bordered the western peninsula of Zamboanga in Mindanao in the east to Palawan in the north…
Nicolaes Visscher Indiae Orientalis
British and Dutch Borneo, 1904