Pulamula
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His Majesty's Colony in the East Indies located upon the Island of Pulamula Pulau Mulia | |
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| 1744–1850 | |
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| Status | Aswickan colony |
| Common languages | Mulian and English |
| Demonym(s) | Mulian |
| Government | Dependent territory |
| Sovereign | |
• 1744-???? | Richard VI |
| Governor-General | |
• 1744-???? | Some Aswickan duder |
| Legislature | Was there a legislature? |
| History | |
| 1744 1744 | |
• Transferred to Noordenstaat | 1850 1850 |
| Area | |
| 2,379 km2 (919 sq mi) | |
| Today part of |  Hindia Belanda |
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The colony of Pulamula, officially His Majesty's Colony in the East Indies located upon the Island of Pulamula, was an Aswickan colony on Pulau Mulia, an island which today forms part of the Commonmwealth of Hindia Belanda. Established in 1744 when SOME ASWICKAN DUDER landed on the island and made contact with the natives, who welcomed the Aswickans with little to no opposition, the colony was to become the chief supplier of tea leaves for the Aswickan tea industry. A treaty with the neighbouring Kingdom of Serambi was entered into by the Aswickans to ensure mutual non-intervention and secure an alliance against the Noordenstaater-held Colony of Hindia Belanda, which had took control most of the islands in the Nusantaran archipelago. The natives of Pulau Mulia were largely ignored by the neighbouring Kingdom of Serambi, although they were considered its subjects. This policy of intentional non-interference on the Serambi's part prove beneficial to the Aswickans in their process of annexation of the island. When SOME ASWICKAN DUDER proclaimed the island to be a possession of the Aswickan crown on DD MONTH 1744, the Kingdom of Serambi was notified of this development whereupon a negotiation took place between the two parties, producing the Aswickan-Serambi Treaty of 1740.
By the 1760s, the Colony had become self-sustaining and prosperous, where a melange of Aswickan and Mulian cultures birthed a unique creole environment whose inhabitants produced some of Hindia Belanda's most renowned literature, music and dances. The lenient Aswickan colonial administration provided the Mulians with better protection and rights than what they enjoyed as subjects of the Kingdom of Serambi. For this reason, the Mulians at the time displayed great loyalty to the Aswickan crown and were content of their situation. In the mid 1800s, the Colony of Hindia Belanda began to expand into the northwestern part of the Nusantaran archipelago,