Taliwang

Taliwang was a Samawa coastal kingdom on western Sumbawa, centred on the port of Taliwang. Its early rulers were remembered as vassals of the Javanese Majapahit Empire.

In 1621 Gowa's elite troops crushed a rebellion in Taliwang. The kingdom later joined Seran and Jereweh as three vassal states of the Sumbawa Sultanate. Its datu maintained their court through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; their dynasty claimed descent from Banjarmasin princes and married into the houses of Selaparang and Sumbawa.