Tidore

Tidore was a clove-growing island kingdom in the Maluku Islands and a rival of neighbouring Ternate. In 1337 its rulers followed the old kolano order; Islam became the state religion under Jamaluddin in the late fifteenth century.

Tidore extended its influence towards western Papua and allied with Spain against Ternate and the Dutch; Spanish forts remained until 1663. A Dutch contract reduced it to vassalage in 1780. Prince Nuku revolted and took Tidore with British help in 1797, but the Dutch returned after his death in 1805.