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The 27 pages that link to Maluku Islands, each with the reason it gives.

• Spice tradeBroader topic: Their rare spices drew long-distance merchants and eventually European expeditions.

• Spanish East IndiesBroader topic: Competition for the Moluccas drew Spain into the Asian spice trade and conflict with Portugal.

• Ferdinand MagellanRelated: Reaching these islands was the expedition’s commercial aim, though Portugal already controlled the region.

• SulawesiRelated: These neighboring islands share Wallacean biogeography but have different island histories and species.

• Papuan languagesRelated: Papuan languages extend westward into parts of this island region.

• WallaceaBroader topic: Their position and endemic wildlife capture Wallacea’s central-island character.

• Francis XavierBroader topic: Xavier preached in the Moluccas during his missions east of India.

• Lesser Sunda IslandsCompared with: The Maluku Islands lie beyond the eastern Lesser Sundas and form a separate regional group.

• Indonesian cuisineBroader topic: These islands’ spices drew foreign traders and shaped global food histories.

• CircumnavigationRelated: The search for these islands drove the voyage that first completed Earth's circuit.

• Indonesian archipelagoBroader topic: The Moluccas mark the archipelago’s eastern island world and connect to its maritime history.

• Malay ArchipelagoBroader topic: Their commodities made a small island group central to global trade.

• SpiceBroader topic: These islands were prized sources of spices that drew competing merchants and empires.

• Treaty of ZaragozaBroader topic: The islands’ spice wealth made them the central prize in the treaty’s dispute.

• Banda SeaNarrower topic: These islands frame the sea’s northern and eastern margins.

• Magellan expeditionBroader topic: The fleet reached the expedition’s central commercial destination after crossing the Pacific.

• CloveBroader topic: The clove tree is native to this archipelago.

• Juan Sebastián ElcanoRelated: Elcano reached the islands before steering Victoria westward toward Spain.

• Star aniseCompared with: The Moluccas are associated with other traded spices, not star anise’s native range.

• Sulu ArchipelagoCompared with: The Moluccas are another trading archipelago, but lie southeast of the Sulu chain within Indonesia.

• Molucca SeaNarrower topic: The sea borders islands central to the historical spice trade.

• Sultanate of TernateNarrower topic: The islands’ resources and sea routes formed the setting in which Ternate rose.

• HalmaheraNarrower topic: Halmahera is the largest island in this wider archipelago.

• Sultanate of GowaRelated: Gowa’s commercial and political interests extended toward the islands’ valuable spice supplies.

• Luís Vaz de TorresRelated: The expedition’s Pacific route and imperial context were connected to Spanish interests in the region.

• Seram IslandNarrower topic: Seram is one of the archipelago’s largest islands.

• West Nusa TenggaraCompared with: It is a separate island region with a different geographic and historical setting.