Banten Sultanate

Sultanate of Banten ᮊᮞᮥᮜ᮪ᮒᮔᮔ᮪ ᮘᮔ᮪ᮒᮨᮔ᮪ كسلطانن بنتن Kasultanan Banten
1526–1813
Flag Coat of arms
Rough extent of the Sultanate of Banten at the death of Sultan Maulana Hasanuddin in 1570, controlling both sides of the Sunda Strait
Status	De jure province of Cirebon Sultanate (1526–1552) Client state of the Demak Sultanate (1527–1546) Independent state (1552–1683) Client state of the Dutch Empire (1683–1813)
Capital	Old Banten
Common languages	Bantenese (predominantly) Malay (trade and diplomatic) Cirebonese Sundanese Lampung
Religion	Islam
Government	Sultanate
Sultan
• 1552–1570	Sultan Maulana Hasanuddin
• 1651–1683	Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa
• 1809–1813	Sultan Maulana Muhammad Shafiuddin
• 2016–now[a]	Sultan Syarif Muhammad ash-Shafiuddin
History
• Syarif Hidayatullah conquered Banten	1526
• Conquest of the Sunda Kingdom	1527
• Independence from Cirebon Sultanate	1552
• Fall of Jayakarta	1619
• Client state of VOC	1683
• Annexed by the French Empire	1808
• Annexed by the Dutch East Indies	1813
Preceded by Succeeded by Sunda Kingdom Cirebon Sultanate Demak Sultanate Bantam Residency Bantam Presidency Batavia
Today part of	Indonesia

The Banten Sultanate (Sundanese: ᮊᮞᮥᮜ᮪ᮒᮔᮔ᮪ ᮘᮔ᮪ᮒᮨᮔ᮪ كسلطانن بنتن, Kasultanan Banten ) was a Bantenese Islamic trading kingdom founded in the 16th century and centred in Banten, a port city on the northwest coast of Java; the contemporary English name of both was Bantam. It is said to have been founded by Sunan Gunungjati, who had previously founded Cirebon.

Once a great trading centre in Southeast Asia, especially of pepper, the kingdom reached its apogee in the late 16th and mid-17th centuries. By the late 17th century, it was overshadowed by Batavia and was finally annexed to the Dutch East Indies in 1813.

Its core territory now forms the Indonesian province of Banten. Today, in Old Banten, the Great Mosque of Banten is an important destination for tourists and for pilgrims from across Indonesia and from overseas.^[1]

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