Maba

Maba lies on the eastern side of Halmahera, among the bays and forested mountains of the northern Moluccas. Once known as Mobon, it was one of the three districts called Gamrange, together with Patani and Weda. Their local rulers, known as #italic sangaji#!, held authority within the wider Sultanate of Tidore. Tradition places their incorporation into Tidore's realm around the early seventeenth century, after neighboring Jailolo lost its independence.