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Kelantan Sultanate (House of Long Yunus)

The modern Kelantan sultanate was consolidated by Long Yunus, who was installed on the throne around 1764 after a protracted succession struggle backed by Terengganu. Long a Siamese tributary sending the golden bunga mas, Kelantan passed to British suzerainty under the 1909 Anglo-Siamese Treaty.

Non-terminal: Siamese tributary, then British protectorate from 1909, and since 1948/1957 a constituent monarchy of Malaysia.

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Borders over time

The atlas holds 3 border frames for Kelantan Sultanate (House of Long Yunus) — the shape you scrub through changes in 1764 · 1782 · 1933.

Further reading

• A History of Malaysia Barbara Watson Andaya & Leonard Y. Andaya · 1982

  Covers the northeastern peninsular states and their Siamese tributary relations (Open Library /works/OL3901035W).

Sources

• Wikipedia, 'House of Long Yunus' and 'Kelantan' (intro fetched via API)
• Search-surfaced founding narrative (Long Yunus enthroned c.1763-64 with Terengganu backing)
• W. A. Graham, 'Kelantan: A State of the Malay Peninsula - A Handbook of Information' (Glasgow, 1908), ch. History, p. 40: 'It is definitely known, however, that about the year 1780 the chiefs who ruled in Kelantan had all been more or less subdued and brought into subjection by the Raja of Kubang Labu'
• Graham 1908, p. 4: 'The area of the State has been estimated at 5500 square miles, the greatest length from north to south being 115 miles, and the greatest breadth from east to west 60 miles.' (bounded by Patani, Perak, Pahang, Trengganu and the China Sea; 'Kelantan may be said to consist of the basin of the Kelantan river and its tributaries')
• John Crawfurd, 'A Descriptive Dictionary of the Indian Islands & Adjacent Countries' (London, 1856), s.v. KALANTAN, p. 195: 'Kalantan existed as a state at the close of the fifteenth century and before the arrival of the Portuguese ... It is one of the five Malay states of the Peninsula, immemorially tributary to Siam ... the "bunga-mas" or "gold flower."'