Johor Sultanate

Johor Sultanate
کسلطانن جوهر
Kesultanan Johor
1528–1824

Flag
Top: (Civil Ensign, ~1824)
Bottom: (Flag of Johor, 1818–1824)
Map showing the partition of the Johor Empire before and after the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824, with the post-partition Johor Sultanate shown in the brightest purple, at the tip of the Malay Peninsula[1]
Map showing the partition of the Johor Empire before and after the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824, with the post-partition Johor Sultanate shown in the brightest purple, at the tip of the Malay Peninsula[1]
StatusRump state of the Malaccan Sultanate
Capital
  • Sayong Pinang
  • (1530s–1536)
  • Johor Lama
  • (1536–1564)
  • Bukit Seluyut
  • (1564–1570)
  • Johor Lama
  • (1570–1587)
  • Batu Sawar
  • (1587–1618)
  • Lingga
  • (1618–1625)
  • No fixed place
  • (1625–1640)
  • Batu Sawar
  • (1640–1675)
  • No fixed place, Sultan based in Pahang then Riau
  • (1675–1688)
  • Kota Tinggi
  • (1688–1700)
  • Pancur
  • (1700–1708)
  • Riau
  • (1708–1715)
  • Pancur
  • (1715–1720)
  • Riau
  • (1720–?)
Source:[2]
Common languagesMalay
Religion
Sunni Islam
GovernmentAbsolute Monarchy
Sultan 
• 1528–1564
Alauddin Riayat Shah II (first)
• 1812–1830
Abdul Rahman Muazzam Shah (last official sultan)
Bendahara 
• 1513–1520
Tun Khoja Ahmad (first)
• 1806–1857
Tun Ali (last)
CurrencyTin ingot, native gold and silver coins
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Malacca Sultanate
Pahang Sultanate
Siak Sultanate
Selangor Sultanate
Pahang Kingdom
Negeri Sembilan (first confederation)
Riau-Lingga Sultanate
Straits Settlements
Johor Sultanate (modern)
Today part ofMalaysia
Singapore
Indonesia

The Johor Sultanate (Malay: Kesultanan Johor or کسلطانن جوهر; also called the Sultanate of Johor, Johor-Pahang-Riau-Lingga, or the Johor Empire) was founded by Sultan of Malacca Mahmud Shah's son, Alauddin Riayat Shah II in 1528.[citation needed]

Prior to being a sultanate of its own right, Johor had been part of the Malaccan Sultanate before the Portuguese captured its capital in 1511. At its height, the sultanate controlled territory in what is now modern-day Johor, Pahang, Terengganu, territories stretching from the rivers of Klang to the Linggi and Tanjung Tuan, situated respectively in Selangor, Negeri Sembilan and Malacca (as an exclave), Singapore, Pulau Tinggi and other islands off the east coast of the Malay Peninsula, the Karimun Islands, the islands of Bintan, Bulang, Lingga and Bunguran, and Bengkalis, Kampar and Siak in Sumatra.[3]

During the colonial era, the mainland part was administered by the British, and the insular part by the Dutch, thus breaking up the sultanate into Johor and Riau.

  1. ^ Turner, Peter; Hugh Finlay (1996). Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei. Lonely Planet. ISBN 978-0-86442-393-1.
  2. ^ Miksic, John N. (2013). Singapore and the Silk Road of the Sea, 1300-1800. Singapore: NUS Press. p. 205. ISBN 978-9971-69-574-3.
  3. ^ Winstedt, R. O. (1992). A history of Johore, 1365–1895. Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. p. 36. ISBN 983-99614-6-2.