Sultanate of Cirebon

The Sultanate of Cirebon (Indonesian: Kesultanan Cirebon, Sundanese: Kasultanan Cirebon) was an Islamic sultanate in West Java founded in the late fifteenth century. It is said to have been founded by Sunan Gunungjati, marked by his letter proclaimed Cirebon's independence from Pajajaran in 1482, although the settlement and the polity itself already established earlier in 1445. Sunan Gunungjati also established the Sultanate of Banten. It was one of the earliest Islamic states established in Java, around the same period with the Sultanate of Demak.

The sultanate court lay in the vicinity of the modern day city of Cirebon on West Java's north coast. Throughout sixteenth to seventeenth century, the sultanate thrived to be the region's center of trade and commerce, as well as served as an Islamic learning and dissemination center. The sultanate disintegrated into four royal houses, started in 1677. Today there are four kratons (palaces) in Cirebon; Keraton Kasepuhan, Kraton Kanoman, Keraton Kacirebonan, and Keraton Keprabonan, each descends their own lineage and all are the descendants and remnants of the Cirebon Sultanate.