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Sulu

Province of the northern Sulu Archipelago in the Philippines; area 894 sq km/345 sq mi; population (1995) 536,000. The capital is Jolo. The province became part of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao in 1996, and consists of the island groups of Jolo, Tungkil, Banguingui, Pangantaran, and Saisi Tapul; there are about 150 islands in total. The terrain of the islands varies from mountains to coral reef formations. Rice, tubers, and coconuts are grown, and fishing is important.
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Thus the Sulus were forced to retreat from northeast Borneo in the 19th century, after the area suffered a long, drastic depopulation, with all of their important trading centers destroyed by the Segai (Warren 1985), or, more precisely, by the joint forces of Tidung and Kayanic soldiers of the Bulungan sultanate.
Ethnohistory of the Kayanic peoples in northeast Borneo (part 1): ... by Okushima, Mika / Borneo Research Bulletin
Everywhere there were smiling men and women clad in colorful sulus (sarongs), sporting Afros, and exchanging a robust "Bula
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Nazife Hanim is one of the talented women who is said to have a skill in the art of calligraphy as she practiced in sulus style.
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