Jolo became the centre of a regional trading system linking the Sulu Archipelago and northeast Borneo. Datus’ trading partnerships, river settlements and kinship networks connected Borneo’s communities to the Sultanate.
Sources & further reading
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The Sulu Zone: Commerce and the Evolution of a Multi-ethnic Polity, 1768–1898
Archipel · Persée · Murdoch University
Jim Warren, ‘The Sulu Zone: Commerce and the Evolution of a Multi-ethnic Polity, 1768–1898,’ Archipel 18 (1979), pp. 223–229. DOI: 10.3406/arch.1979.1512.