Tawalisi (ca. 1350 C.E–1400 C.E.) is a Southeast Asian kingdom described in the journals of Ibn Battuta.[1][2]
Guesses to the location of Tawalisi have included Java,[3]: 115 Pangasinan, Luzon, Sulu, Celebes (Sulawesi), Cambodia,[4]Cochin-China, the mainland Chinese province of Guangdong, and practically every island in South Asia beginning with ta. In the Philippines, Pangasinan was considered to be the most-likely location of Tawalisi, but this has since been disputed.[5]
^Ibn Battuta, The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325–1354, vol. 4, trans. H. A. R. Gibb and C. F. Beckingham (London: Hakluyt Society, 1994), pp. 884–5.
^William Henry Scott, Prehispanic Source Materials for the Study of Philippine History, ISBN971-10-0226-4, p.83
^Bade, David W. (2013), Of Palm Wine, Women and War: The Mongolian Naval Expedition to Java in the 13th Century, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies