Kingdom of Demak

In the deployment and further development of Islam in Java, the preachers of Islam who later became known as "Walisongo" (guardian nine) concentrates its activities by making the central city of Demak as everything. For the support of Walisongo was mainly on the basis of the order of Sunan Ampel, then Raden Patah was assigned to teach the religion of Islam and to open schools in villages Glagah Wangi. Not long after Raden Patah opened the Madrasah and boarding school in the village. over time the village is visited by many people. Not only a center of science and religion, but later became the center of trade and even became the center of the first Islamic kingdom in Java.

The first Islamic kingdom was founded by Raden Patah for your blessing and support of the Walisongo expected shortly after the collapse of the Majapahit kingdom that is more or less in the year 1478 AD sinengkalan: "Sirno ilang Kartaning Earth" (lang: Javanese). The founding of the kingdom of Demak "sinengkalan": "Geni Siniram Janmi Dead" (lang: Javanese) which means the year 1481 AD.
Prior to the center of the kingdom of Demak, Demak was the Majapahit kingdom and duchy area before status duchy, Demak better known people with the name "Glagah Wangi" which became the duchy from Jepara and is the only region Majapahit duchy whose leaders embraced Islam.

Raden Patah


According to folklore, the man who first encountered by Raden Patah in Glagah Wangi is "Nyai Lembah" which comes from the Rawa Pening. On the advice of Nyai Lembah is then Raden Patah Glagah Wangi settled in the village, later named "Bintoro" Demak. Later in its development and the increasingly hectic society, Bintoro finally became the capital of the country.

The word "Demak" was indeed derived from the Arabic "Dimak" means a trickle of tears, because of how hard it was the Walisongo broadcast and establish the religion of Islam into a society that has long had a strong belief and conviction that the teachings of Hinduism.

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