Obi

Obi lies in the northern Moluccas, south of the strait separating it from Bacan and Halmahera. Its mountainous interior rises above a coast looking toward the Maluku and Seram seas. In the fourteenth century Obi was counted among the independent kingdoms of the region, alongside Ternate, Tidore, Bacan and Jailolo. Its ruling family formed marriage ties with that of Ternate, binding the island into the politics of the spice islands.