Luwu

Luwu was a Bugis-led kingdom on the Gulf of Bone in southern Celebes, with its court at Malangke. Around 1300 Bugis settlers built a multi-ethnic coalition there through trade and the authority of the Datu.

Around 1365 the Majapahit poem Desawarnana named Luwu among Celebes' three chief powers. It made peace with Bone in the fifteenth century but was overtaken by southern kingdoms in the sixteenth. In 1605 La Patiwareq accepted Islam, and around 1620 the court moved to Palopo. By the 1830s visitors found Palopo decayed, with some three hundred houses.