{
  "g": "h,empire,asia",
  "ns": "empires",
  "name": "Sultanate of Sulu",
  "now": "philippines",
  "years": "1457–1917",
  "id": "sulu",
  "index": "c/philippines:1457",
  "title": "Flag of the Sultanate of Sulu (late 19th century)",
  "ratio": "1:2",
  "colors": [
    {
      "color": "red",
      "hex": "#c1272d",
      "note": "Field of the Tausūg sultans."
    },
    {
      "color": "white",
      "hex": "#ffffff",
      "note": "Sulu royal mihrab emblem."
    },
    {
      "color": "blue",
      "hex": "#21428f",
      "note": "Hoist stripe."
    }
  ],
  "desc": "- The Sultanate of Sulu (1457–1917) was a Muslim Tausūg state in today's southern Philippines, ruling the Sulu archipelago, parts of Mindanao, northern Borneo (Sabah), and Palawan at various times\n - **Construction:** a red field bearing a stylised white **mihrab**-like arch with ornate foliate flourishes — the royal emblem — with a blue and white vertical stripe at the hoist\n - The late-19th-century variant shown; earlier Sulu banners were plain red or red with different calligraphic devices",
  "flag": "empires/sulu.svg",
  "countryData": {
    "name": "Sultanate of Sulu",
    "officialName": "Kasultanan sin Sūg",
    "un": "none"
  },
  "trivia": "- The Sultan's descendants still maintain a ceremonial claim on Sabah, Malaysia — the 2013 \"Lahad Datu standoff\" was a violent flashpoint of this dispute\n - Sulu's **Bajau** and **Tausūg** sailors connected the Spice Islands, Borneo, and the Philippines into a pre-colonial maritime network\n - The Sultanate's sovereignty was dissolved by the US in 1915 (Carpenter Agreement); a symbolic sultan-in-exile tradition continues",
  "_name": "Sultanate of Sulu",
  "_namespace": "empires",
  "_namePart": "sulu"
}