History Of Sabah 3000 BC - 2020 AD

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The origins of the name Sabah are uncertain, and several theories have emerged. One theory suggests that during its time as part of the Sultanate of Brunei, it was referred to as Saba due to the presence of various types of bananas called "pisang saba" (also known as cooking bananas), which were extensively cultivated along the region's coast and popular in Brunei. The Bajau community referred to it as "pisang jaba." Due to local dialect, the word Saba was pronounced as Sabah by the local population. During Brunei's submission to Majapahit, the poem in Old Javanese Nagarakretagama described the area that is now Sabah as Seludang.

Meanwhile, although the Chinese have been associated with the island of Borneo since the Han Dynasty, they did not have specific names for the region. Instead, during the Song Dynasty, they referred to the entire island as Po Ni (also pronounced as Bo Ni), which was the same name they used to refer to the Sultanate of Brunei at that time. Due to Sabah's proximity to Brunei, it has been suggested that Sabah is a Brunei Malay word meaning "upstream" or "northward." Another theory suggests that it originated from the Malay word "sabak," meaning a place where coconut sugar is produced. Sabah (صباح) is also an Arabic word meaning "morning."

The existence of multiple theories makes it difficult to determine the true origin of the name. It is nicknamed the "Land Below the Wind" because the state is located below the typhoon belt of East Asia and is rarely affected by typhoons, except for occasional tropical storms.

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0:00 History of Sabah regarding the origin of the name Sabah
0:56 Earliest human arrivals in Borneo
2:19 Earliest kingdoms in Sabah
2:54 Earliest Sultanate of Brunei
3:53 Arrival of European sailors and explorers
4:20 Brunei-Spanish War
4:46 Brunei Civil War
5:29 Eastern Tidung territories of Sabah
5:53 Earliest British settlement in Sabah
6:09 1771 Brunei-Iranun-Sulu conflict
7:00 Districts in Sabah in the 18th century
8:27 Occupation in eastern Sabah
8:56 Syarif Usman in Kota Marudu
9:23 Handover of Labuan to the British
9:42 American and Brunei agreement
10:04 German trading company in Sabah
10:20 Overbeck agreement and the handover of Sabah by Brunei
10:55 Overbeck agreement and the Sulu Sultanate
14:09 West coast of Sabah in 1869
14:35 British North Borneo Chartered Company
15:02 Madrid Protocol
15:25 Padas Damit War led by Pangeran Syahbandar 1884
15:38 Mat Salleh Revolt 1897
15:49 Antanom Revolt 1915
16:03 Film "Trip Through North Borneo" 1907
16:02 First railway track in North Borneo
16:42 North Borneo Telegraph Cable
17:24 Japanese occupation in 1942 and the "Double 10" uprising
18:38 Sabah in the 1950s-1960s
18:53 UN self-determination resolution in 1960
19:17 Formation of Malaysia plan
21:28 Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation
21:58 Double Six Tragedy
22:17 Sabah's population figures

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