Sikka

Sikka was a kingdom on Flores whose rulers held court at Sikka Natar on the southern coast. Its traditions trace the royal house, known as the Great House, to the interior hills of Krowé and to ancestors who established their authority along the shore. The rulers adopted the Portuguese name da Silva, a sign of their ties to the Catholic world of the eastern islands. Local tradition associates the foundation of the Christian rajadom with Don Alésu around 1607, though rulers had lived here earlier.