Editing Bojonegoro Regency (section)

==History==
The area near the Solo River is fertile and has been settled since early history by the [[Javanese people|Javanese]]. However, these settlements never developed into major urban center, except for several coastal cities. Rather, villages are dependent on a weekly market which rotates among them and ''bakul'' (traveling peddlers) collect and distribute agricultural and manufactured products among the villages.

The Solo River played a major role in the development of these settlements. It acted as a source of water and fertile soil, and a means of transportation. A set of copper plates of the Ferry Charter (1358 C.E.) lists over twenty ferry crossings on the lower stretch of the Solo River, downstream from Bojonegoro. Inland settlements would trade [[Agricultural production|agricultural products]] via trading centres in the coastal cities, like neighbouring [[Tuban]], for [[spices]] from [[Maluku Islands|Spice Islands]], [[ceramic]]s from China, and other commodities.<ref>{{cite conference |first=Jan Wisseman |last=Christie |title=States Without Cities - Demographic Trends In Early Java |book-title=Cornell Southeast Asia Program |url=http://cip.cornell.edu:80/Dienst/UI/1.0/Summarize/seap.indo/1106966119 |publisher=Cornell University |date=October 1991 |access-date=8 February 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060923005044/http://cip.cornell.edu/Dienst/UI/1.0/Summarize/seap.indo/1106966119 |archive-date=23 September 2006 }}</ref>

The authority over these settlements, including the territory of modern-day Bojonegoro, was held by the dominant power in Central Java, and later East Java, the kingdoms of [[Mataram Kingdom|Mataram]], [[Kediri (historical kingdom)|Kediri]], [[Singhasari]], and [[Majapahit Empire|Majapahit]].

As a territory in northern Java, the area of modern-day Bojonegoro was one of the first to accept [[Islam in Indonesia|Islam]]. The Solo River area and most of Java would become part of the [[Sultanate of Demak]] and its successor the [[Sultanate of Mataram]].

The modern regency (''kabupaten'') was founded on October 20, 1677, with Mas Toemapel as the first regent (''bupati''), with its capital in Jipang village (currently around Padangan District in the westernmost part of Bojonegoro). It was founded as a response to the loss of Mataram's coastal area to the [[Dutch East India Company]]. Bojonegoro then became an important border town. In 1725 the capital was moved to its current location.

[[File:Bojonegoro map from us army map service.png|right|thumb|Bojonegoro town, East Java, Indonesia. Circa 1950]]

After the Dutch took over Java in the 18th and 19th centuries, Bojonegoro and the neighbouring regencies of [[Tuban Regency|Tuban]] and [[Lamongan Regency|Lamongan]] were administered under Bojonegoro Residency, with a Dutch Resident in Bojonegoro town. The resident acted as an advisor and supervisor to the regents, positions which were held by native Javanese nobility (''[[priyayi]]'').

During Dutch rule, tobacco and maize were introduced from the Americas, which would later become major commodities in Bojonegoro.

In 1894, the trans-Java railroad, which linked [[Jakarta|Batavia]] and [[Surabaya]] and passed through Bojonegoro, was finished, increasing transportation and improving the teak industry. Urbanisation also progressed under Dutch rule.

Since the [[Indonesian National Revolution]], Bojonegoro regency has been administered as part of [[East Java]] province, with R.M.T. Suryo, the grandson of the former Bojonegoro regent as its first governor. In 2008, the Bojonegoro people elected its first directly elected regent, following an amendment in the [[constitution of Indonesia|constitution]]. Suyoto of [[National Mandate Party|the National Mandate Party]] was elected as regent. In the 2018 Election, Dr Hj. Anna Muawannah (PKB-National Awakening Party) won the election by a majority (30.7%) and was elected as regent.<ref>{{cite web |title=Bupati Bojonegoro Pimpin PAN Jatim Lagi |work=KOMPAS.com |publisher=Kompas |date=19 June 2010 |url=http://regional.kompas.com/read/2010/06/19/1725154/Bupati.Bojonegoro.Pimpin.PAN.Jatim.Lagi |last1=Media |first1=Kompas Cyber |access-date=12 March 2011 |archive-date=13 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713164034/http://regional.kompas.com/read/2010/06/19/1725154/Bupati.Bojonegoro.Pimpin.PAN.Jatim.Lagi |url-status=live }}</ref>