Sultan Selangor - pedia Bahasa Melayu,

sultan kingSultan is a position with several historical meanings. Orinally, it was an Arabic abstract noun meaning strength, authority, rulership, derived from the verbal noun سلطة sulṭah, meaning authority or power. Later, it came to be used as the title of certain rulers who claimed almost full soverenty (i.e., not having dependence on any hher ruler) without claiming the overall caliphate, or to r…Sultan is a Muslim soveren, often hereditary, while a King is a male monarch of a kingdom, not specific to any relion.