Tosora

Tosora lies near Lake Tempe and the Cenrana River in the Bugis country of southern Sulawesi. Its position connected the inland lake basin with the river leading towards the Gulf of Bone. The town became a centre of the kingdom of Wajo, whose lands lay among the lakes and waterways of the peninsula. In the seventeenth century Wajo's capital moved from Wajo-Wajo to Tosora. The settlement developed as a royal and religious centre, with a mosque and fortified works among the traces of its past. Its place in Wajo's history reflects the importance of the inland river and lake routes through which the kingdom's communities were linked.