OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

•  in former days.vroeger volgens de overlevering een onafhankelijk rijk op Halmahera, thans naam van een district op dat eiland, behoorende tot het sultannat Ternate..

Note: according to tradition, an independent state on Halmahera; at present it is the name of a district on that island, belonging to the Sultanate of Ternate. Perhaps I am mistaken, but I have always had the impression that European writers attached more importance to the Rajaship of Jailolo than it actually had. The administration of Jailolo, as is still the case with Lolodah, would have been in the hands of a Raja and more or less subordinate to Ternate. Most probably both parties clashed with each other on several occasions and because of instigations by discontented refugees or exiled royal relatives, resulting in many revolts, that rajaship was eventually abolished. However, this must have happened very long ago, since it is very difficult to obtain reliable information about these events on Ternate.