Jailolo

Jailolo was a kingdom on the bay of the same name on Halmahera's west coast. In the 1320s Moluccan kings acknowledged its ruler as first among them, though Ternate soon eroded its precedence.

After 1530 Regent Katarabumi seized the throne and defended a stone fort until Portuguese and Ternatan forces took it in 1551. He took poison in 1552 and Jailolo became a Ternatan lordship. Tidore prince Nuku briefly revived it in 1796, but Dutch and Ternatan forces crushed the restoration after 1806; the last pretenders were exiled in 1832.