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Sulu
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Su·lu  (sl)
n. pl. Su·lu or Su·lus
A member of a Muslim people inhabiting the Sulu Archipelago.

[Sama sulu, current.]


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Thus the Sulus were forced to retreat from northeast Borneo in the 19th century, after the area suffered a long, drastic depopulation, with all of their important trading centers destroyed by the Segai (Warren 1985), or, more precisely, by the joint forces of Tidung and Kayanic soldiers of the Bulungan sultanate.
Everywhere there were smiling men and women clad in colorful sulus (sarongs), sporting Afros, and exchanging a robust "Bula
Nazife Hanim is one of the talented women who is said to have a skill in the art of calligraphy as she practiced in sulus style.
 
 
 
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