Kalingga ꦏꦫꦠꦺꦴꦤ꧀ꦏꦭꦶꦁꦒ (Jawa) | |||||||
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6th century–7th century | |||||||
Capital | Precisely unknown, suggested somewhere between Pekalongan and Jepara | ||||||
Common languages | Old Javanese, Sanskrit | ||||||
Religion | Hinduism, Buddhism, Animism | ||||||
Government | Monarchy | ||||||
Raja | |||||||
• circa 674 | Shima | ||||||
History | |||||||
• Established | 6th century | ||||||
• Disestablished | 7th century | ||||||
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Today part of | Indonesia |
Kalingga (Javanese: Karajan Kalingga; Chinese: 訶陵; pinyin: Hēlíng; Middle Chinese: [hɑ.lɨŋ]) or She-po or She-bo (Chinese: 闍婆; pinyin: Shépó; Middle Chinese: [d͡ʑia.buɑ]) in Chinese sources,[1] or Ho-ling in Arabic scriptures of Umayyad Caliphate era;[2] was a 6th-century Indianized kingdom[broken anchor] on the north coast of Central Java, Indonesia.
It was the earliest Hindu-Buddhist kingdom in Central Java, and together with Kutai and Tarumanagara are the oldest kingdoms in Indonesian history.