MAKASSAR - AN OVERVIEW

Portuguese rulers known as the metropolis Macáçar. Makassar was extremely ably led in the first 50 % in the seventeenth century when it correctly resisted Dutch pressure to close down its trade to Maluku and manufactured allies rather then enemies from the neighboring Bugis states. Karaeng Matoaya (c.1573–1636) was the ruler of Tallo from 1593,