History of Ternate

(By : Busranto Abdullatif Doa)Ternate, the most prominent of the four Moluccan sultanates (Ternate, Tidore, Bacan and Jailolo/Gilolo), dates its foundation to 1257 AD. The ruling house traces its origins to the arrival of the Muslim sage, Sayyid Ja'afar Sadik, but the exact line of descent is subject to contradictory genealogies. The genealogies are only certain from the late sixteenth century