Former sultanates

Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, and historically known as the Maldive Islands, is an archipelagic country in South Asia, located in the eastern Arabian Sea, within the northern Indian Ocean. Maldives is southwest of Sri Lanka and India, about from the Asian continent's mainland. Maldives' chain of 26 atolls stretches across the equator from Ihavandhippolhu Atoll in the north to Addu Atoll in the south.

Zanzibar is a Tanzanian archipelago off the coast of East Africa. It is located in the Indian Ocean, and consists of many small islands and two large ones: Unguja (the main island, referred to informally as Zanzibar) and Pemba Island. The capital is Zanzibar City, located on the island of Unguja. Its historic centre, Stone Town, is a World Heritage Site.

Turco-Persian Sunni Muslim empire (1037–1194)

1206–1526 empire in the Indian subcontinent

former sultanate in Anatolia

state in Egypt, Hejaz and the Levant (1250–1517)

island in Zanzibar, Tanzania

1856–1964 monarchy in the Indian Ocean

1400–1511 state on the Malay Peninsula

ruling dynasty (1549-1659)

former sultanate in Southeast Asia

1914-1922 sultanate in Northeastern Africa

historic sultanate state based on the islands of Sulu, Palawan, and northeastern Borneo

1352–1576 state in Bengal

island country in Southeast Asia and Oceania

Malay sultanate, centred in Brunei on the northern coast of Borneo island in Southeast Asia from 1368 to 1888

Southern Indian kingdom (1490–1636)

former sovereign state in Java

monarchy on the Arab Peninsula between 1820-1970

sultanate located in north west Java, which functioned as one of the main hubs of the early modern spice trade

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Medieval sultanate centered on Kilwa

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former sultanate in the Philippines

sultanate which existed in central India in from 1518 AD to 1687 AD, ruled by the Quṭb Shāhī dynasty

Deccan sultanate

Kathiri, also known as the Kathiri sultanate (), and officially as the Kathiri State of Seiyun, was a sultanate in the Hadhramaut region of the southern Arabian Peninsula, in what is now part of Yemen and the Dhofar Governorate of Oman. It was established in 1379 and ruled Hadhramaut from Dhofar in the east to Sharura in the Empty Quarter in the north and Ain Bamabd in the south.

former sultanate in North Moluccan

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Wituland (also Witu, Vitu, Witu Protectorate or Swahililand) was a territory of approximately in East Africa centered on the town of Witu, just inland from the Indian Ocean port of Lamu, north of the mouth of the Tana River in what is now Kenya.

The Kingdom of Gobir (Demonym: Gobirawa) was a Hausa kingdom in what is now northern Nigeria. Founded by the Hausa in the 12th century, Gobir was one of the seven original kingdoms of Hausaland, and continued under Hausa rule for nearly 700 years. Its capital was the city of Alkalawa. In the early 19th century elements of the ruling dynasty fled north to what is today Niger from which a rival dynasty developed ruling as Sarkin Gobir ("King of Gobir") at Tibiri. In 1975 a reunited traditional sultanate took up residence in Sabon Birni, Nigeria.

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1432–1967 sultanate in modern-day Yemen

Omani maritime empire (1696–1856)

former Somali kingdom that ruled parts of the Horn of Africa

nawabs who ruled the Carnatic region of South India between 1690 and 1801

historical country and sultanate in Niger

Malay state in eastern Sumatra (1632–1946)

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former Somali imperial ruling house

'''Qu'aiti, officially the Qu'aiti State of Shihr and Mukalla''', was a sultanate in the Hadhramaut region of South Arabia, in what is now Yemen. The Sultanate spanned the Indian Ocean coast up to the border of Mahra, encompassed the historic city of Shabwa, the central valleys and oasis settlements of Hadhramaut, and controlled the southern Empty Quarter. Its capital was Mukalla, and it was divided into six Banners (provinces), namely Mukalla, ash-Shihr, Shibam, Wadi Doan, the Western Province, and Hijr. Mukalla, ash-Shihr, and Shibam were the Sultanate's major cities.

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Sultanate based in South Kalimantan (1526–1860/1905), restored in 2010

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Audhali ( ' or '), or the Audhali Sultanate ( ''''), was a state in the British Aden Protectorate. It was a founding member of the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South in 1959 and its successor, the Federation of South Arabia, in 1963. Its capital was Zarah.

an African chieftainship that lasted until 1884

former state in Indonesia

Haushabi or Hawshabi ( al-Ḥawshabī or al-Ḥawāshab), or the Haushabi Sultanate ( Salṭanat al-Ḥawāshab), was a state in the British Aden Protectorate. Its capital was Musaymir. The area is now part of the Republic of Yemen.

wahidi state in the British Aden Protectorate

sultanate in Southeast Asia

1609–1956 Malay state in western Borneo

̈1500s–1927 northeastern Somali kingdom

kingdom in Indonesia

sultanate located in Sumatra from 1615 to 1904

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1731–1959 state in Southeast Asia

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1700s–1967 state in southwest Arabia

former country in Indonesia