Tawalisi is a Southeast Asian kingdom described in the journals of Ibn Battuta. Ibn Battuta said he reached Tawalisi after a sea voyage of 71 days, 34 of which were spent rowing due to no wind. He said he reached China from Tawalisi after a voyage of 17 days. The commentators have never been able to decide the port of departure for the 71-day voyage, and so have concentrated on the 17-day voyage from Tawalisi to China. Guesses to the location of Tawalisi have included Pangasinan, Luzon, Sulu, Celebes, Cambodia, Cochin-China, the mainland Chinese province of Guangdong, and practically every island in South Asia beginning with ta. The most known location, however, is Pangasinan in the Philippines.
Based on linguistics and considering the Chinese perspective in the 13th-14th centuries A.D., Tawalisi might be a Chinese pronunciation of jawa rsi which could mean Kingdom of Java or King of Java. While the original name of the duchess of the said land was actually spelled in Arabic by Ibn Battuta as WHR DJ in his Rihlah which might be misread as Urduja instead of reading it as Wahre Daja due to the lack of geographical perspective and the lack of knowledge in the Arabic script congruent to the period when it happened. Bhre Daha was a title given to Dayah Wiyat, the twin sister of Bhre Kahuripan, as duchess of Daha. Both duchesses were daughters of Raden Wijaya and Gayatri. After the death of Kala Gemet both duchesses assumed power as rajah kembars and both were given the title Tribhuana tungga dewi. Java had been attacked by Mongols they called Tatars for several times, first in the last part of the 13th century A.D., second during the reign of Kala Gemet. and few more unrecorded invasions. Hence, it is very clear that Java at that time especially the royal court had also been linguistically influenced by the Turkic speaking Tatars. Thus, the Bhre Daha could talk in Turkic as was observed by Ibn Battuta during his visit in her court. Majapahit also possessed one of the most powerful navy of Javanese junks during its era. Each junk is able to carry 500-1000 men, and several hundred horses. The number of junks possessed by Majapahit is unknown, but the largest expedition mobilized 400 large junks.
