Sambas

Sambas was a Hindu Dayak state on the Sambas River in northwestern Borneo. In 1337 its rulers were vassals of Tanjungpura.

The Nagarakretagama listed Sambas among Majapahit's tributaries in 1365. Its position on the China–Java shipping route attracted Chinese settlers by 1407; in the sixteenth century it came under Demak's influence and later paid tribute to Banjar. In the seventeenth century the Brunei prince Tengah married into the ruling house, and his son founded the Muslim sultanate in 1675.