Major Islamic pepper-trading sultanate on northwestern Java that controlled a key Sunda Strait port until Dutch East Indies annexation in 1813.
Formally abolished in 1813 CE when British Lieutenant-Governor Stamford Raffles forced Sultan Muhammad Syafiuddin to abdicate; Java was returned to the Dutch in 1814 and Banten became a residency of the Dutch East Indies.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Banten Sultanate — the shape you scrub through changes in 1527 · 1580.
Regional history covering the Banten sultanate of west Java.