Mataram

Dynasty founded by king Sanjaya in the 8th century AD in the southern part of central Java, Indonesia. The state dominated during the 8th-10th centuries AD and was ruled by the Shailendra dynasty. Major sites are the stupa of Borobudur, a temple complex in Dieng, and numerous funerary temples (candi) as at Prambanan. It is also the name of a large kingdom that lasted from the late 16th-18th centuries in Java.

A dynasty founded by king Sanjaya in the 8th century in the southern part of central Java, Indonesia. The name was applied retrospectively to the kingdom of Sanjaya in the 10th century, as the official name of the country which united the centre and the east of the island under the same authority, so as to indicate that the state was no longer confined to eastern Java.