Kedatuan

''Kedatuan'' (Old Malay, Philippine, and Sundanese spelling: ''kadatuan''; Javanese romanization: ''kedaton'') were historical semi-independent city-states or principalities throughout ancient Maritime Southeast Asia in the present-day Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia. In a modern Indonesian/Malay sense, they could be described as kingdoms or polities. The earliest written record mentioning the term ''kadatuan'' was the 7th-century Srivijayan Telaga Batu and Kota Kapur inscription from Sumatra, Indonesia. Provided by Wikipedia