People / group
Iranun
The Iranun are a people of the coast of Mindanao around Illana Bay in the southern Philippines, with communities also in Sabah. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Iranun fleets, allied with the Sulu Sultanate, were renowned as maritime raiders, attacking coasts from the Philippines to the Malay Peninsula and Indonesia and taking captives for the slave trade.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Iranun. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/iranun
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- “Iranun.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/iranun. Accessed .
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- The Epoch Institute. “Iranun.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/iranun.
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- The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Iranun’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/iranun (Accessed: ).
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