One of its shareholders, His Excellency Kamal Khalfan, is a respected Omani businessman and an Honorary Consul of the Sultanate of Oman.
The crux of their disagreement lies in a contract made in 1878, between the Sultanate of Sulu and the British North Borneo Company.
When Menon was 28 he had a chance meeting at a Cochin hotel with Sulaiman Al Adawi, then a captain in the army of the Sultanate of Oman.
In fact, until annexed by the Dutch in 1874, the sultanate of Aceh was a distinct and powerful state which at times controlled a large slice of Sumatra and channelled much of South East Asia's trade through its ports.
Calling themselves the Royal Army of Sulu, the clan members said they were descendants of the Sultanate of Sulu in the southern Philippines, which ruled parts of northern Borneo for centuries, and demanded that the Malaysian government pay more money to lease their land.
In Manila, Jamalul Kiram III told reporters that he was worried the violence in Sabah might spread because many Filipinos, especially followers of his sultanate in the southern Philippine, are upset by the killing of their compatriots in Lahad Datu.
It formed part of the Sulu Sultanate - which once spread over several southern Philippine islands as well as parts of Borneo - before it was designated a British protectorate in the 1800s.
The village the Filipinos were occupying formed part of the Sulu Sultanate - which once spread over several southern Philippine islands as well as parts of Borneo - before it was designated a British protectorate in the 1800s.
On that day the musketry and artillery of Selim the Grim, the Ottoman sultan, blasted to shreds the sword-wielding cavalry of Egypt's 250-year-old Mamluk sultanate, opening the way to 400 years of Ottoman Turkish rule over all but the peripheries of the Arab world.
After 14 years of Mahathir's premiership, the Malays, like Malaysia's other ethnic groups, are enjoying the greatest period of prosperity since the days of the Malacca Sultanate.
The sultanate has a long history of association with the British military and defence industry, which stretches back to military assistance provided by the UK to overcome a rebellion in the north of Oman, in the late 1950s.
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It has an agreement with the sultanate for the pre-positioning of support equipment for 26, 000 personnel at Masirah, Thumrait and Seeb airports, and an agreement for the use of these airports as bases.
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The three provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat once formed the heart of an independent Malay Muslim sultanate.
Muslim rulers, from the Abbasids in the eighth century to the Mamluk sultanate in Egypt and the Ottomans, developed the institution of military slavery to lessen nepotism and the internal conflicts created by tribal loyalties.
The Sulu Sultanate once spread over several southern Philippine islands as well as parts of Borneo, and claimed Sabah as its own before it was designated a British protectorate in the 1800s.
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