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sultan kingThe Sultanate of Ternate (Jawi: کسلطانن ترناتي ‎), previously also known as the Kingdom of Gapi, [1] is one of the oldest Muslim kingdoms in Indonesia besides the sultanates of Tidore, Jailolo,Sultan is a position with several historical meanings. Orinally, it was an Arabic abstract noun meaning strength, authority, rulership, derived from the verbal noun سلطة sulṭah, meaning authority or power. Later, it came to be used as the title of certain rulers who claimed almost full soverenty (i.e., not having dependence on any hher ruler) without claiming the overall caliphate, or to r…