Banten

Banten was an Islamic trading sultanate founded in the sixteenth century at a port on Java's northwest coast. Its pepper trade flourished, but in 1619 the Dutch seized Jayakarta and founded Batavia, a rival to Banten.

Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa expanded Banten's trade and opposed the Dutch East India Company. In a struggle with his son Haji, Dutch forces intervened for the son, and Ageng surrendered in 1683. The Dutch East Indies annexed Banten in 1813.