An Islamic maritime sultanate centered in the southern Philippines that controlled the lucrative trade in slaves, spices, and forest products across the Sulu Sea.
Formally dissolved on 22 March 1915 when Sultan Jamalul Kiram II signed the Carpenter Agreement, relinquishing all political sovereignty over territories to the United States Insular Government while retaining only religious authority.
The atlas holds 4 border frames for Sultanate of Sulu — the shape you scrub through changes in 1450 · 1565 · 1608 · 1800.
Covers the Islamization of the southern Philippines and the commercial networks Sulu exploited.
Frames the Sulu sultanate's maritime trading world of the southern Philippines and Borneo within the Andayas' survey of the Islamic Malay archipelago and its trade networks.