Ngali

Ngali denotes a small Sumbawan, or Samawa, chiefdom on western Sumbawa, centred near present Sumbawa Besar and the nearby Pulau Ngali. In the fourteenth century this coast was a Majapahit dependency keeping Hindu and animist traditions, until its local chiefdoms merged into the Sumbawa Sultanate from 1648 as Islam spread.