1. Maldives was governed as an independent Islamic sultanate for most of its history from 1153 to 1968, first under Dutch and then became a British protectorate from 1887 until 25 July 1965.

2. Noting historical instances of societal collapse—the Mameluke Sultanate in Egypt, the Ming Dynasty in China—he cautions that America might face a similar fate.

3. The Sultanate of Oman is a country in the southwestern part of Asia, on the southeast coast of the Arabian Peninsula.

4. The sultanate controlled the areas which are now Peninsula Malaysia, southern Thailand (Patani), and the eastern coast of Sumatra.

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5. In the Middle East, the sultanate of Oman have stated that they are planning to build seven new seismographic stations to monitor possible quakes and tsunamis.

6. In 1968 the sultanate was abolished and a republic inaugurated with Nasir as president.

7. The Sultanate of Oman occupies the corner of the Arabian Peninsula nearest India, and lies between Dubai and Yemen.

8. After independence from Britain in 1965, the sultanate operated for another 3 years.

9. Hang Tuah and friends were all from China, they were being assigned to the Malacca Sultanate because Parameswara requested the Ming Dynasty Emperor for protection!

10. Known as corsairs, perhaps the most infamous Barbary Coast pirate was Barbarossa, who united Algeria and Tunisia as military states under the Ottoman sultanate and maintained his revenues by piracy.

11. After the fall of Malacca, three nations struggled for the control of Malacca Strait: The Portuguese (in Malacca), the Sultanate of Johor and the Sultanate of Aceh.

12. It is also one of the not-to-be-missed attractions of Oman, an oil-rich and peaceful sultanate, bordered by Saudi Arabia to the west, Yemen to the south and the United Arab Emirates to the north.

13. This administrative system was implemented by all the states in the Malay Peninsula, which at that time were united under the Melaka Sultanate.

14. If you go back in history, you would know that they were on a mission to protect the UNGRATEFUL MALAY Sultanate from the frequent attacks by the Kingdom of SIAM (Thailand).

15. On September 27, Premier Wen Jiabao of the State Council met with Deputy Prime Minister Fahad bin Mahmood Al-Said of the Sultanate of Oman in the Great Hall of the People.

16. Zanzibar's fortunes declined after the islanders revolted against the sultanate in 1964.

17. The Olympic flame, carried in a specially-designed lantern, wasflied to Islamabad on a chartered plane from Muscat, the capital and largest city of the Sultanate of Oman.

18. East Malaysia, consisting of the federal territory of Labuan and the states of Sabah and Sarawak, occupies the northern part of the island of Borneo, bordering Indonesia and the Sultanate of Brunei.

19. Portugal made Malacca a colony in 1511 by military conquest, thus ending the Sultanate of Malacca.