The Federated Malay States under British protection consist of the sultanates of Perak, Selangor and the Negri Sambilan on the west coast, and the sultanate of Pahang on the east coast.
When the Malacca sultanate fell, owing to the invasion of the Portuguese in 1511, a member of that royal house is said to have migrated to Perak, and the present dynasty claims to have been descended from him.
The Trengganu sultanate is one of the most ancient in the peninsula and ranks with that of Riau.
In the late 18th century, a newly established sultanate in Muscat signed the first in a series of friendship treaties with Britain.
The famous old Straits of Malacca, which were once the haunts of the fierce Malayan pirates, separate the island from the mainland and the Sultanate of Johore.
The southernmost kingdom of the great continent of Asia is the little Sultanate of Johore, ruled over by one of the most enlightened Princes of the East.
The Seljuk sultanate in Anatolia, shaken by the crusades, had gone the way of all oriental empires to make room for one of its fractions, which showed a most un-oriental faculty of organic growth.
Accordingly, they gave her the Sultanate together with the signet-ring of governance and the turband of commandment and they seated her upon the throne of the reign.
After this she committed to him the Sultanate and he became a Sovran and Sultan in her stead, and she bade fetch her mother to that city where her cousin governed and where her father-in-law the Wazir was chief Councillor of the realm.
Years rolled on, and I went from Khorassan to Transoxiana and wandered to Ghazni and Cabul; and when I returned, I was invested with office, and rose to be administrator of affairs during the Sultanate of Sultan Alp Arslan.
Under the Sultanate of Malik Shah, he came to Merv, and obtained great praise for his proficiency in science, and the Sultan showered favors upon him.
Years rolled on, and I went from Khorassan to Transoxiana, and wandered to Ghazni and Cabul; and when I returned, I was invested with office, and rose to be administrator of affairs during the Sultanate of Sultan Alp Arslan.
Under the Sultanate of Malik Shah he came to Merv, and obtained great praise for his proficiency in science, and the Sultan showered favours upon him.
In the second half of his reign the Seljouks, though split into several principalities owing to the break up of the Sultanate of Iconium, united to assail the borders of the empire.
The Sulu Sultanate could be a Protectorate similar to North Borneo or the Malay States.
Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera makes an attack on the Moros of Mindanao, and conquers the Sultanate of Buhayen and island of Basilan.
District chief town Cotta-bato (valley of the Rio Grande and ancient Sultanate of Buhayen).
The two roads join at about half way, just before coming to the cotta of Kurandangan in the Sultanate of Pualas.
The growth of British interests in the country now forming the protectorate arises from its connexion with the sultanate of Zanzibar.
But about the beginning of the 19th century the increasing power and commercial enterprise of the Arab sultanate of Zanzibar caused the Arabs of Maskat and Zanzibar to march inland from the east coast.
That all captives within the sultanate of Sulu be delivered within one year.
The fourth sultan moved to Sug, the third capital, and the town remained the capital of the sultanate until 1876, the date of the Spanish conquest and occupation.
A careful review of the Spanish reports referring to these early campaigns in Mindanao indicates that Bwayan has been erroneously used in place of Magindanao, the ancient capital of the sultanate of Magindanao.
Raja Muda Amirul Kiram then requested the Spanish Government to recognize his succession to the sultanate and a commission was sent from Manila to investigate the matter and report on it.
The same custom is observed in the case of accession to the sultanate and other high offices.
Becoming old and weak, Amirul Mu'minin abdicated the sultanate in favor of his son Israel, in November, 1773.
Harun's sultanate seemed unacceptable to the great majority of datus, and hostilities arose in many localities.
Bantilan was the son of Sultan Shahabud Din and had as much right to the sultanate of Sulu as any son of Sultan Badarud Din.
His influence and fame and that of his father endeared the house of Jamalul Kiram to the people to such an extent as to restrict the succession of the sultanate to their direct line of descent for a considerable period of time.
Wishing to secure the sultanate for her son, Amirul Kiram, she attempted to alienate Badarud Din from his father and used her influence on the council to that end.
At that date the eligibles to the sultanate belonged to three houses--that of Sultan Jamalul Kiram I, the house of Sultan Shakirul Lah, and that of Datu Putung, the son of Sultan Alimud Din I.
He urged that the descendants of Sultan Shakirul Lah had an equal right to the sultanate with the descendants of Jamalul Kiram I, and protested against the injustice of electing a minor in preference to older and maturer members of the family.
It is under the Sultanate of Sulu, there being two Sultanates in the island.
The normal end of Roman Imperialism is a sultanate like that of Diocletian.
It was inevitable, just as the principate of Augustus and the sultanate of Diocletian were inevitable; but there is nothing specially divine or glorious about any of these phases of human evolution.
Both authorities agreed on the fact that the oldest founded the sultanate of Bruney, and the second the sultanate of Sulu.
Each sultanateor datuship kept a separate genealogy.
The former Iranun sultanate must have occupied the country in the vicinity of Malabang.
But having married in Mindanao, the succession to Kabungsuwan's sultanate naturally reverted to the native element, and the Samals were gradually alienated and their sympathy with their master grew steadily weaker.
The word Bagumbayan means "newly built," and has lately been applied to the sultanate on account of the late change of the residence of the sultan.
The nation looked to Raja Twa to succeed Sultan Kawasa, but he died before his uncle, and thesultanate fell to his young son, Untung.
The Iranun sultanate was on the shore of Illana Bay, and the term Iranun signifies, in general, the people who live along the shores of that bay.
Malinug assumed the sultanateafter his father's death and kept up the fight.
This same man founded the sultanate of Magindanao and reformed the whole system of government among his converts.
He was young when he assumed power, and his reign marked the beginning of the downfall of the sultanate and the actual occupation by Spain of the Rio Grande Valley.
Bwisan had two older brothers, and he was probably preceded in the sultanate by both of them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sultanate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
