Demak Sultanate

<p>The Demak Sultanate (کسلطانن دمق‎) was a <a href="/facts/Javanese_people/35mcwIsB">Javanese</a> <a href="/facts/Muslim/W2ukq4pg">Muslim</a> state located on <a href="/facts/Java/2MNA2rLm">Java</a>'s north coast in <a href="/facts/Indonesia/vQnWU3IW">Indonesia</a>, at the site of the present-day city of <a href="/facts/Demak%2c_Indonesia/HRCLHeM8">Demak</a>. A port <a href="/facts/Fief/KqK5faJD">fief</a> to the Hindu-Buddhist <a href="/facts/Majapahit/28e5Eydc">Majapahit</a> kingdom thought to have been founded in the last quarter of the 15th century, it was influenced by <a href="/facts/Islam/zDLbL45C">Islam</a> brought by Muslim traders from <a href="/facts/China/lTjIXY5p">China</a>, <a href="/facts/Gujarat/HwmVfMwr">Gujarat</a>, <a href="/facts/Arabia/x1fDka2b">Arabia</a> and also Islamic kingdoms in the region, such as <a href="/facts/Samudra_Pasai/6TEbyBfa">Samudra Pasai</a>, <a href="/facts/Malacca_Sultanate/1YBCoI27">Malacca</a> and <a href="/facts/Champa/HLWa7c9y">Bani (Muslim) Champa</a>. The sultanate was the first Muslim state in Java, and once dominated most of the northern coast of Java and southern <a href="/facts/Sumatra/Fo192kJb">Sumatra</a>.
</p><p>Although it lasted only a little more than a century, the sultanate played an important role in the <a href="/facts/The_spread_of_Islam_in_Indonesia_(1200_to_1600)/wtjnhL73">establishment of Islam in Indonesia</a>, especially on Java and neighboring areas.
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Demak Sultanate