Abulfatah Agung

sultan of Bantam
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Died:
1692

Abulfatah Agung (died 1692) was the ruler of the powerful Javanese sultanate of Bantam from 1651 to 1683.

Agung encouraged English and French trade but successfully opposed Dutch expansion into the area in the early part of his reign. In the 1670s, however, when he attempted to change the succession to his throne from his older son Sultan Haji to his younger son, Haji revolted and with Dutch help seized the throne. Haji had to pay war costs and grant a trade monopoly to the Dutch. Agung ended his days in captivity, and Bantam came under Dutch domination.

This article was most recently revised and updated by Encyclopaedia Britannica.