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HISTORY

Nuling was the original name of this town when it was created by virtue of the Executive Order No.82, issued by President Manuel A. Roxas on August 18, 1947. The name “Nuling” was derived from the beautiful local bird called “Nuri”. Nuri has been the favorite pet one of the Sultans. However, the local leadership and its peace loving constituents want its name to be more symbolic with its significant historic events that took place in this fast developing municipality, thus, the late Congressman Salipada K. Pendatun sponsored a House Bill that become Republic Act No. 5647 and was signed into law by then President Ferdinand E. Marcos on Independence Day, June 12, 1969; an Act changing the name of the municipality of Nuling to the Municipality of Sultan Kudarat, in the province of (mother Province of now the Province of , North Cotabato and Sultan Kudarat) in recognition and honor of Muslim National Hero of our country: Sultan Mohammas Dipatuan Kudaratullah. The late Sultan Mohammad Kudaratullah was the son of Datu Kapitan Laut. The original seat of the Sultanate of Maguindanao was located at the mouth of the Maguindanao River (now Matampay) but later transferred to the nearby sitio at the bank of the Nuling Creek of Salimbao of this Municipality. Kudarat, a royal lineage of the hero soldier Sultan Dipatuan Kudaratullah was appointed by American Carpenter as President of the Municipal District of Nuling. The former, however, tactfully declined said and after and instead, designated his son, Datu Mamadra Mastura for the position, who served from 1922 to 1923. He was succeeded by the following executives: 1935 to 1945, Datu Baraguir Mamadra, first elected Municipal district Mayor of Nuling under the Philippine Commonwealth with Barangay Salimbao as the seat of the Sovernment of Nuling; 1945 to 1946, Datu Dagadas Taha, appointed by President Osmina through the recommendation of Former Congressman Salipada K. Pendatun of Cotabato Province. 1946, Datu Abas Mastura; 1946, Compania; 1947 to 1951, Datu Mokamad Mamadra, first elected Mayor of the newly created regular Municipality of Nuling; 1951 to 1955, Datu Osmena Mamadra; 1956 to July 1977, Hadji Datu Sanggacala Mamadra Bataguir, first elected Municipal Mayor of the newly named Sultan Kudarat Municipality (formerly Nuling). Almost ten (10) years later, after the creation of the regular Municipality of Nuling on August 18, 1947, the late President Carlos P. Garcia, aware on the development of the town, issued Executive Order No. 267 fixing the seat of the Municipal Government of Sultan Kudarat to Barangay Dalumangcon of the town. July 1977 to January 30, 1980, Datu Tucao O. Mastura, CPA, appointed by the President of the , Ferdinand E. Marcos; On the same year, following the assumption of Mayor Mastura, late President Ferdinand E. Marcos, issued Presidential Decree No. 1170, transferring the seat of Government of the Province of Maguindanao from the Municipality of Maganoy to the Municipality of Sultan Kudarat on July 11, 1977; January 30, 1980 to June 30, 1988, Datu Tucao O. Mastura, CPA, elected on January 30, 1980 by landslide votes of the people; July 1, 1998 to June 30, 2001, Bai Shajida Mastura-Bandila, first woman elected Municipal Mayor; In a plebiscite conducted on March 15, 2003, the electorates of this Municipality unanimously voted in favor of the creation of a new Municipality in the name of Sultan Mastura, being a son of Sultan Dipatuan Kudaratullah, better known as Sultan Kudarat. The New Municipality of Sultan Mastura has absorbed 13 barangays from the former leaving on 39 for its mother Municipality. July 1, 2001 to June 30, 2004, Datu Tucao O. Mastura, CPA, once again elected as Municipal Mayor unopposed; July 1, 2004 to June 30, 2007, Datu Tucao O. Mastura, CPA, elected again as Municipal Mayor; July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2010, Bai Shajida Mastura-Bandila, again elected as Municipal Mayor of the Municipality of Sultan Kudarat, , while his farther, former Mayor Datu Tucao O. Mastura, CPA, run for the position of Governor of the newly created Shariff Kabunsuan Province. July 1, 2010 to present Datu Tucao O. Mastura, CPA returned back as the Municipal Mayor of the municipality with his daughter, former mayor Bai Shajida Biruar Mastura as his Vice Mayor. July 1, 2013 to present Datu Shameem B. Mastura, elected for the first term as new and youngest mayor of Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao. Presently, Sultan Kudarat is one of the 11 municipalities of the new Province of Shariff Kabunsuan with the total land area of 71, 151 hectares and an unofficial Population Census Result of 152, 667 and a 24, 651 households as of August 1, 2007. Unaffected by the political changes, the Municipality is developing steadfastly as a satellite municipality with potentials to become a major urban center in the near future. Comprising the town are thirty-nine (39) duly created barangays namely: NAMES OF BARANGAYS OF SULTAN KUDARAT, MAGUINDANAO 1. Dalumangcob 14. 27. Narra 2. 15. Kakar 28. Nekitan 3. Banatin 16. Kapimpilan 29. Olas 4. Banubo 17. Katamlangan 30. Panatan 5. Bulalo 18. Katidtuan 31. Pigcalagan 6. Bulibod 19. Katuli 32. Pinaring 7. Calsada 20. Ladia 33. Pingping 8. Crossing Simuay 21. Limbo 34. Raguisi 9. Damaniog 22. Maidapa 35. Rebuken 10. Darapanan 23. Macaguiling 36. Salimbao 11. Gang 24. Matengen 37. Sambulawan 12. Ibotegen 25. Mulaog 38. Senditan 13. Inawan 26. Nalinan 39. Ungap