Bolaang

Bolaang was a Mongondow polity on the northern peninsula of Celebes, with courts at Dumoga and Bolaang. In 1337 its chief Mokodoludut was remembered as lord of nine territories.

Bolaang expanded across much of the peninsula in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In 1670 Loloda Mokoagow adopted the title datu, or king. A 1694 treaty with the Dutch-backed Minahasan federation stripped Bolaang of its eastern lands, confining it to the Mongondow plateau; further Dutch East India Company contracts reduced its power in the eighteenth century.