State
Sultanate of Gowa
The Sultanate of Gowa was a Makassarese state in south-western Sulawesi, Indonesia, centred on the port of Makassar. Its rulers adopted Islam in 1605 and spread it by alliance and war to neighbouring Bugis lands and to Sumbawa and Bima. Gowa dominated the eastern spice trade until the Dutch East India Company and its Bone allies defeated it in the Makassar War, ended by the Treaty of Bongaya in 1667.
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