Portuguese rulers called the metropolis Macáçar. Makassar was incredibly ably led in the very first 50 percent with the seventeenth century when it effectively resisted Dutch stress to shut down its trade to Maluku and made allies as opposed to enemies with the neighboring Bugis states. Karaeng Matoaya (c.1573–1636) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHrkfhgzM24