JAMES BROOKE AND MAKING NORTHERN BORNEO PART OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE

JAMES BROOKE AND MAKING 

NORTHERN BORNEO PART OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE

JAMES BROOKE AND BORNEO IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Sarawak, Sabah and Brunei were all once part of the powerful kingdom of Brunei. From the sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries, developments in Borneo were generally separate from those on the peninsula of Malaysia, partly because of more limited European involvement in Borneo. The Dutch had a presence in southern Borneo but never established themselves on the north coast of Borneo.The eastern part of this region (now Sabah) was under the nominal control of the Sultan of Sulu, a vassal of the Spanish Philippines. The rest was the territory of the Sultanate of Brunei.