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Gold coins of the Gowa-Tallo Sultanate era, during the reign of Sultan Abdul Khairul Mansur Shah (1739-1742). The traces of Islam in South Sulawesi existed since the 1320s with the arrival of the first Sayyid in South Sulawesi, namely Sayyid Jamaluddin al-Akbar Al-Husaini , who is the grandfather of Wali Songo .
From the sixteenth century onward, Gowa and its coastal ally Talloq [a] became the first powers to dominate most of the peninsula, following wide-ranging administrative and military reforms, including the creation of the first bureaucracy in South Sulawesi. The early history of the kingdom has been analyzed as an example of state formation.
Kingdom of Tallo. The Kingdom of Talloʼ was one of the two kingdoms of Makassar in South Sulawesi from the 15th century to 1856. The state stood in a close political relation to the Sultanate of Gowa. After the Islamization of the Gowa and Tallo kingdoms in the early 17th century, they were usually collectively known as the Makassar Kingdom.
Karaeng Matoaya (1573–1636) was the ruler of Tallo and the bicara-butta (first minister) of Gowa from 1593 until his death. He gained power after overthrowing Tunipasuluq, and transformed Makassar into one of the main trading centre in Eastern Indonesia. [1] He converted to Islam around 1605, adopted an Islamic name "Abdullah Awwal al-Islam ...
Hasanuddin of Gowa. Sultan Hasanuddin (Sultan Hasanuddin Tumenanga Ri Balla Pangkana; (12 January 1631 – 12 June 1670) was the 16th Ruler of The Sultanate of Gowa as Sombaya Ri Gowa XVI from 1653 to 1669. He was proclaimed as Indonesian National Hero on 6 November 1973. [1] The Dutch called Sultan Hasanuddin "the Rooster of the East" as he ...
Katangka Mosque was built in 1603 by Sultan Alauddin, the 14th king of the Sultanate of Gowa who first converted to Islam. [1] Initially, it was inside the fort complex and used as a place for worship by the king and his guards. Historically, during the Friday prayer, the imams who delivered sermon were guarded by two bodyguards who carried swords.
Fort Somba Opu. Fort Somba Opu (Makassarese Baruga Somba Opu, Indonesian Benteng Somba Opu) was a fortified commercial center of the Gowa Sultanate. Its ruins are located in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. The fort was the center of the Gowa Sultanate in the 16th-century until its destruction by the Dutch East India Company in 1669.
Karaeng Pattingalloang (1600–54), was the exceptionally well-read chief minister of the Kingdom of Gowa in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Pattingalloang was the second son of Karaeng Matoaya (c.1573-1636), who was the ruler of the Kingdom of Tallo and chief minister (Tuma'bicara-butta) of the partner kingdom of Gowa during its meteoric rise to one of the leading independent ports of Southeast Asia.