Bagaluhan

Bagaluhan lies in the Mataram area of Java. Java lies between the Java Sea and the Indian Ocean, and rice agriculture supported many of its kingdoms.

In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries Majapahit was a major power in eastern Java. Muslim port polities rose along the north coast, and by the turn of the seventeenth century the inland sultanate of Mataram had become a leading power in central and eastern Java. The Dutch East India Company established itself at Batavia during the same century.