Early history of Gowa and Talloq

Makassar kingdom of Gowa emerged around 1300 CE as one of many agrarian chiefdoms in the Indonesian peninsula of South Sulawesi. From the sixteenth century onward, Gowa and its coastal ally Talloq became the first powers to dominate most of the peninsula. The history of Gowas and Talloqs is described in the chronicle ‘The Gowa Chronicles’ by Francis David Bulbeck...