Maimbung

Maimbung lies on the southern side of Jolo, the island at the heart of the Sulu archipelago. Sulu genealogical traditions place some of the island's earliest inhabitants in the Maimbung area, and later accounts remember it as an early seat of its rulers before the center shifted to Bwansa and then to Jolo on the northern coast. The island's settlements stood within a maritime world linking Mindanao, Borneo and the islands between them.