Bantaeng

Bantaeng was a Makassarese kingdom on the southern coast of Celebes. Founded in 1254 under Mula Tau, it was a rice-growing polity with river ports in 1337, when Massaniaga Bantaeng ruled.

The 1365 Negarakertagama listed it as Bantayan. In the 16th century Gowa under Karaeng Tunipalangga seized the port and shipbuilding centre. Bantaeng followed Gowa's conversion to Islam in 1605 under Karaeng Ma'jombeyya; in 1666 Cornelis Speelman burned about a hundred rice boats off its coast.