Taliwang

Taliwang lies in western Sumbawa, near the waters separating the island from Lombok. The fourteenth-century Javanese poem Nagarakretagama names it among places in the Sumbawa region, alongside Dompu, Bima and Seran. In later centuries Taliwang was one of three kedatuan, or local domains, associated with the sultanate of Sumbawa; the others were Seran and Jereweh. Their relationship with the sultanate joined the island's smaller courts in a wider political order.