page_title: Sunda Kingdom
section_title: European account
hierarchical_section_title: Sunda Kingdom / Historiography / European account
caption_attribution_description: Bantam (Banten) Xacatara (Jayakarta) Cherebum (Cirebon) Taggal (Tegal) Margam (Semarang) Damo (Demak) Iapara (Jepara) Tubam (Tuban) Sodaio (Sedayu, now near Gresik) Surubaya (Surabaya)
context_page_description: The Sunda Kingdom was a Sundanese Hindu kingdom located in the western portion of the island of Java from 669 to around 1579, covering the area of present-day Banten, Jakarta, West Java, and the western part of Central Java. The capital of the Sunda Kingdom moved several times during its history, shifting between the Galuh area in the east and Pakuan Pajajaran in the west.
  According to primary historical records, the Bujangga Manik manuscript, the eastern border of the kingdom was the Pamali River and the Serayu River in Central Java. Most accounts of the Sunda Kingdom come from primary historical records from the 16th century. Its inhabitants were primarily the eponymous ethnic Sundanese, while the majority religion was Hinduism.
context_section_description: European explorers, mainly Portuguese based in Malacca, also reported the existence of the Sunda Kingdom. Tomé Pires (1513) mentioned a Western Java kingdom that had established trade relation with them as ... Regño de Çumda ..., which means "The Kingdom of Sunda". Also the report of Antonio Pigafetta (1522) that mentioned Sunda as a pepper producing region.
  Tomé Pires from Portugal wrote in his report “Summa Oriental (1513–1515)”:
  Some people affirm that the Sunda kingdom take up half of the whole island of Java; others, to whom more authority is attributed, say that the Sunda kingdom must be a third part of the island and an eight more. It ends at the river chi Manuk. The river intersects the whole island from sea to sea in such away that when the people of Java describe their own country, they say that it is bounded to the west by island of Sunda. The people hold that whoever passes this strait (the river Cimanuk) into the South Sea is carried off by violent currents and unable to return.
  The Portuguese report is dated from a later period of the kingdom, shortly before its fall to forces of the Sultanate of Banten.
caption: Old map of Java still thought that land of Sunda in the west is separated with the rest of Java island. Here the capital of Sunda is called Daio which refer to Dayeuh Pakuan Pajajaran
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