It has been 600 years since 1417, when Chinese Emperor Yongle personally wrote a long dedication to a good friend who died in his land - the Sultan of Sulu - and gave him an imperial burial in Dezou, China, that is today a National Historical site in China.
This month, China celebrates the 600th Anniversary of China-Sulu Relations.
One of the thousands of 21st generation descendant of Sulu Sultan said, they don't think Sulu is an island. They believed it is a State.
Long before the establishment of the Philippines as a Republic, there existed Sultanates and Kingdoms governing various parts of the seven thousand plus islands now collectively known as the Philippines. During the colonization period, the Spaniards saw the conversion of many locals into the Christian faith. But the Sultanates in the southern part of the country resisted and fought bravely foreign invasion for more than 400 years protecting it’s sovereignty against the Spaniards, the Japanese and the American forces until it was illegally annexed into the Spanish colony Philippines through the Treaty of Paris.
The Sultanate of Sulu was one of the Kingdoms in the southern part of the country that saw this resistance and remained an independent sovereign kingdom for many centuries.
The Sultanate of Sulu governed the Sulu archipelago, and most of the Visayas and Mindanao Islands since the 14th century. When the Sultanate of Maguindanao and Buayan was later established the Sultanate of Sulu ceded most of mainland Mindanao Island supporting the establishment of the three Sultanates in Mindanao.
The Sulu Sultanate was recognized and acknowledge by its neighboring empires. It had diplomatic relations, entered into treaties and built strong economic ties that saw exchange of people and products from its neighbors Sultanates of Maguindanao and Buayan, to the Strait of Malacca, the great empire of China and the Sham nations in the Gulf (middle east).
Records from the Royal Hashemite Sutanate of Sulu and Sabah shows that “the Kingdom of Sulu became a sovereign kingdom nation state in 1390 and signed the Most Favored Nation Treaty with China in 1417.”
“It continued on as a sovereign Sultanate, patterned after the Islamic sultanates in the Middle East, whose Muslim missionaries brought the religion Islam in the country, and further records claim that the Royal Sultanate of Sulu was the very first in the whole world to install the "Tri-partite Form of Government" in 1457, with the Sultan (Islamic King) as the Head of State, the Ruma Bichara as Congress or Legislature, and the Supreme Qadi as the Islamic Supreme Court Justice of the kingdom, copied by the USA in 1776, the Philippines in 1946, and many other sovereign nations today.”
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