The Sulu and Celebes Seas, a semi-enclosed sea area and porous region that covers an area of space around 1 million square kilometres, have been subject...

Sulu and Celebes Seas, Indian Ocean, and Falcon Lake. Due to the crisis in Bolivarian Venezuela, issues of piracy returned to the Caribbean in the 2010s...

of the Philippines List of ruined churches in the Philippines History of the Philippines (1565–1898) Spanish–Moro conflict Piracy in the Sulu and Celebes...

Philippines, the United States Army had taken the responsibility for the defense of the country in the land, and the United States Navy in the seas until the passage...

in 1998. The PN is also responsible for anti-piracy missions on the Sulu Sea also deploys naval assets during humanitarian assistance operations in the...

Abduction of Crew in the Sulu-Celebes Seas and Waters off Eastern Sabah". July 2019. ReCAAP (2020). "Piracy and Armed Robbery Against Ships in Asia: Half Year...

Somali piracy in context." Journal of Contemporary African Studies 28.3 (2010): 325-341. Arabian Sea, Encyclopædia Britannica "Limits of Oceans and Seas, 3rd...

China Sea to the north and northwest, the Sulu Sea to the northeast, the Celebes Sea and the Makassar Strait to the east, and the Java Sea and Karimata Strait...

slavery in the rest of the Muslim world, and non-Muslim peoples were captured by Muslim pirates from the Sulu and Celebes who sold them to slavery in the Islamic...

by piracy but by a myriad of maritime crimes despite piracy often dominating the conversation on maritime security. The other notable crimes in the Gulf...

the major active joint sea patrols in the Sulu and Celebes Sea with the authorities in Philippines and Indonesia to eliminate all forms of piracy and...

known as the Caribbean. The Caribbean Sea is one of the largest seas on Earth and has an area of about 2,754,000 km2 (1,063,000 sq mi). The sea's deepest...

Strait, the Philippine Sea via the Luzon Strait, the Sulu Sea via the straits around Palawan, and the Java Sea via the Karimata and Bangka Straits. The Gulf...

miles and use the Lombok Strait, Makassar Strait, Sibutu Passage, and Mindoro Strait instead. Piracy has been a problem in the strait. Piracy had been...

kilometres (28,534 sq mi) surrounded by the South China Sea in the west, Sulu Sea in the northeast and Celebes Sea in the southeast. Sabah has a total of 1...

as the successor state of the Sultanate of Sulu, retains a "dormant claim" on Eastern Sabah on the basis that the territory was only leased to the British...

Among the notable incidents are the hijacking of the MT Orkim Harmony and MT Zafirah. Filipino pirates operate in the Sulu Sea and they can reach the South...

off the coasts in deeper waters, and still migrate into the Red Sea, but mainly in deeper waters of outer seas. In 2017, waters of the Persian Gulf along...

enclosed seas well known to the Greeks: the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. In contrast, the term "Atlantic" originally referred specifically to the Atlas...

been in hand. Drake had Thomas Doughty beheaded on 2 July 1578. In January 1580, when Drake became stranded upon a reef off the Celebes Sea, the ship's...

suppressed piracy in the region and, in the ensuing turmoil, restored the Sultan of Brunei to his throne, for which the Sultan made Brooke the Rajah of...

233 metres (4,045 ft). The Otranto Sill, an underwater ridge, is located at the border between the Adriatic and Ionian Seas. The prevailing currents flow...

The Red Sea is one of four seas named in English after common color terms – the others being the Black Sea, the White Sea and the Yellow Sea. The direct...

combined with piracy have all contributed to shipwrecks in the Bay of Bengal. In chronological order: 1778 to 1783: The Naval operations in the American Revolutionary...

1080/10576100701329568. S2CID 110385039. Febrica, Senia (2014). "Securing the Sulu-Sulawesi Seas from Maritime Terrorism: a Troublesome Cooperation?". Perspectives...

province of the Philippines. It is the largest and northernmost of the major islands of the Sulu Archipelago and is located just off the southern coast...

interest in the region and to suppress piracy in the South China Sea. The British also believed the island could be the next Singapore. The island became...

routes and their associated kingdoms began to collapse, leading to a rise in piracy in the area. The 1st-century Periplus of the Erythraean Sea documents...

the naming of seas after colours relating to the cardinal points (as per Black Sea and Red Sea). This '*bʰel' root and basic meaning were retained in...

strait of Malacca and in the Sulu and Celebes Sea is one of the main non-traditional security threats for the region, it has challenged the capacity of its...