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Brunei Darussalam, officially the
State of Brunei, Abode of Peace, is a country located on the north
coast of the island of Borneo, in Southeast Asia. Apart from its
coastline with the South China Sea it is completely surrounded by the
state of Sarawak, Malaysia, and in fact it is separated into two parts
by Limbang, which is part of Sarawak.
The Sultanate of Brunei was very powerful
from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century.[citation needed] Its realm
extended over the coastal regions of modern-day Sarawak and Sabah, the
Sulu archipelago, and the islands off the northwest tip of Borneo.
European influence gradually brought an end to this regional power.
Later, there was a brief war with Spain, in which Brunei's capital was
occupied. Eventually the sultanate was victorious but lost territories
to Spain. The decline of the Bruneian Empire culminated in the
nineteenth century when Brunei lost much of its territory to the White
Rajahs of Sarawak, resulting in its current small landmass and
separation into two parts. Brunei was a British protectorate from 1888
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