Siang

Siang was a trading kingdom on the west coast of South Sulawesi, with its royal centre at Sengkae near a river mouth. It prospered on forest and sea products and later wet rice.

After Malacca fell in 1511, merchants flocked to its port. Around 1545 the Portuguese visitor Manuel Pinto estimated its capital held some forty thousand people. Gowa and Talloq were remembered as its former vassals, but Gowa and its better-sited port of Somba Opu drew away Siang’s trade from the mid-sixteenth century. By the century’s end Siang had become subject to Gowa.