A report on Majapahit, Javanese people and Borneo
Majapahit (ꦩꦗꦥꦲꦶꦠ꧀; ), also known as Wilwatikta (ꦮꦶꦭ꧀ꦮꦠꦶꦏ꧀ꦠ; ) was a Javanese Hindu-Buddhist thalassocratic empire in Southeast Asia that was based on the island of Java (in modern-day Indonesia).
- MajapahitThe Javanese manuscript Nagarakretagama, written by Majapahit court poet Mpu Prapanca in 1365, mentioned the island as Nusa Tanjungnagara, which means the island of the Tanjungpura Kingdom.
- BorneoRaden Wijaya would later establish Majapahit near the delta of the Brantas River in modern-day Mojokerto, East Java.
- Javanese peopleThe Javanese named Borneo Puradvipa, or Diamond Island.
- BorneoAccording to the Nagarakretagama, canto XIII and XIV mentioned several states in Sumatra, Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Sulawesi, Nusa Tenggara islands, Maluku, New Guinea, Mindanao, Sulu Archipelago, Luzon and some parts of the Visayas islands as under the Majapahit realm of power.
- MajapahitJavanese merchants also converted coastal cities in Borneo to Islam.
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Indonesia
1 linksCountry in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.
Country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.
It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guinea.
The Indonesian archipelago has been a valuable region for trade since at least the 7th century when Srivijaya and later Majapahit traded with entities from mainland China and the Indian subcontinent.
Indonesia consists of thousands of distinct native ethnic and hundreds of linguistic groups, with Javanese being the largest.
Java
1 linksOne of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia.
One of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia.
The ethnic groups native to the island are the Javanese in the central and eastern parts and Sundanese in the western parts.
Borneo lies to the north, and Christmas Island is to the south.
The eastern Javanese kingdoms of Kediri, Singhasari and Majapahit were mainly dependent on rice agriculture, yet also pursued trade within the Indonesian archipelago, and with China and India.
Banjarmasin
0 linksCity in South Kalimantan, Indonesia.
City in South Kalimantan, Indonesia.
It is the third most populous city on the island of Borneo.
They eventually contributed to the culture of the Banjar people, along with the Javanese and Malays.
Outside records indicate it was home to several kingdoms such as Tanjungpuri—theorized to have been founded by Malay people from Srivijaya—and Negara Daha and Dipa, which were founded by Javanese people from Majapahit.
Johor
0 linksState of Malaysia in the south of the Malay Peninsula.
State of Malaysia in the south of the Malay Peninsula.
After the demise of the kingdom, much of the Malay coast fell under the jurisdiction of Siam and later Majapahit.
Johor became an empire spanning the southern Malay Peninsula, Riau Archipelago (including Singapore), Anambas Islands, Tambelan Archipelago, Natuna Islands, a region around the Sambas River in south-western Borneo and Siak in Sumatra together with allies of Pahang, Aru and Champa, and it aspired to retake Malacca from the Portuguese.
As the area was still an undeveloped jungle, the Temenggong encouraged the migration of Chinese and Javanese to clear the land and develop an agricultural economy in Johor.