The dry, rugged and thinly peopled islands between Timor and the Banda Sea: Wetar and Kisar, with Leti, Moa, Lakor, Romang, Damar and Babar beyond (the Maluku Barat Daya regency).
They matter as a line of marks a captain steers by rather than as places to trade (board). These islands lie on the seam with the Lesser Sunda islands (Timor and Alor are written with them). No chief, town or text is dated to 1200.
Who holds it
- Title
- No overall chief shown for 1200: village chiefs
- Since
- not pinned
- Born
- not known
- Family
- not known
- Confidence
- low
Nothing is written about the rulers or headmen of this country for 1200. The structure is read from geography and from ethnography of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
What it holds
- Sea marks
- Poor landings
Allies and rivals
The Wetar and Kisar town record (Wetar and Kisar).
How things stand that morning
Not described for 1200; the villages are presumed to be farming, fishing and selling what the rivers and forests give.
Wealth
Little; no figures.
Military
Not known; boats, spears, shields and blowpipes in the later record. No numbers.
Threats
- Feuds and raiding between villages
- Flood, drought or fire
- A change in the trade that comes by sea
Places of note
- Wetar: Island (the campaign board's point).
- Kisar: Small island (missing from the land mask).
Where the sources disagree
- The ethnic names used here (Dayak, Kayan, Kenyah, Iban, Ngaju, Banjar and the rest) are later outsiders' or ethnographic names; the ethnic map of 1200 is not known and differs from the modern one.
Evidence: Geography and later ethnography only; no text of the period describes this country.
On the map: A rough outline of the people's country; the real extent of any village group in 1200 is not known, and nothing here is a border.
Sources and studies
- Background knowledge of Southeast Asian history (Wolters; Hall; Bellwood; Scott; Junker; Reid), recalled and not re-read in this pass
- The OMNIA board (September 2026) note for this place: a lead only, not a source
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.