Moronene

Moronene was a realm of the Moronene people in southeastern Sulawesi, covering the mainland around present-day Bombana and nearby Kabaena. Its rulers, called Mokole, governed from Taubonto.

Taubonto's name means the year of rotting, recalling a legend in which a rice goddess brought a harvest so large that grain rotted in the fields. In the eighteenth century the expanding Tolaki kingdom of Konawe defeated Moronene; the Mokole domains, including Kabaena's autonomous rulers, subsequently came under the Sultanate of Buton.