{
  "g": "h,empire,asia",
  "ns": "empires",
  "name": "Mataram Sultanate",
  "now": "indonesia",
  "years": "1586–1755",
  "id": "mataram",
  "index": "c/indonesia:1586",
  "title": "Flag of the Mataram Sultanate",
  "ratio": "2:3",
  "colors": [
    {
      "color": "red",
      "hex": "#c1272d",
      "note": "Field of Javanese kingship."
    },
    {
      "color": "white",
      "hex": "#ffffff",
      "note": "Crescent of Islam."
    },
    {
      "color": "blue",
      "hex": "#1f4faa",
      "note": "Crossed krises."
    }
  ],
  "desc": "- The Mataram Sultanate (1586–1755) was the dominant Javanese Islamic state of the 17th century, covering most of Java from its court at Kotagede and later Kartasura\n - **Construction:** a red field charged with a white **Islamic crescent** at the hoist and two crossed blue-and-white **krises** (wavy-bladed Javanese daggers) — the regalia of Javanese sultanship\n - Fragmented in 1755 by the Treaty of Giyanti into the successor Sultanate of Yogyakarta and Sunanate of Surakarta, both of which survive today as ceremonial monarchies",
  "flag": "empires/mataram.svg",
  "countryData": {
    "name": "Mataram Sultanate",
    "officialName": "Kasultanan Mataram",
    "un": "none"
  },
  "trivia": "- Founded by Senopati ing Alaga, whose dynasty produced Sultan Agung (r. 1613–1645), the greatest Mataram ruler\n - Sultan Agung's forces besieged Dutch Batavia twice in the 1620s; he reformed the Javanese calendar, fusing Hindu Saka with the Islamic Hijri\n - The kris as a royal emblem predates Islam and continues as a Javanese cultural symbol",
  "_name": "Mataram Sultanate",
  "_namespace": "empires",
  "_namePart": "mataram"
}