السلطان باب الله

Baabullah (RH)

Sultan Baabullah of Ternate

Also known as: Sultan Babullah, Baab Ullah

c. 934–991 AH · c. 1528–1583 CE

Reigned 1570–1583 CE

Rulers Ternate Sultanate

Sultan of Ternate who drove out the Portuguese and spread Islam across eastern Indonesia.

Baabullah became sultan of Ternate in 1570 after the Portuguese murdered his father, Sultan Khairun, during peace talks. He besieged their fort for five years until they surrendered in 1575.

Under him Ternate became the leading power of the spice islands, its influence reaching from Sulawesi to the southern Philippines, and Islam spread across the Maluku islands. In 1579 he received the English navigator Francis Drake.

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