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Kabupaten Mamasa adalah sebuah wilayah kabupaten yang terletak di provinsi Sulawesi Barat, Indonesia. Ibu kota kabupaten ini terletak di kecamatan Mamasa. Kabupaten ini dimekarkan pada tahun 2002 dari Kabupaten Polewali Mamasa yang sekarang berubah nama menjadi Polewali Mandar.

Pada pertengahan tahun 2024, penduduk kabupaten Mamasa berjumlah 167.066 jiwa dan kepadatan penduduk 56 jiwa/km2. Mamasa terletak di dataran tinggi, dan merupakan satu-satunya kabupaten yang tidak memiliki garis pantai di Sulawesi Barat. Mamasa memiliki kelompok penganut penghayat kepercayaan lokal yang disebut Mappurondo.

Kabupaten Mamasa sebagian besar dihuni oleh Suku toraja mamasa yang mayoritas beragama kristen protestan dan memiliki kedekatan budaya dengan Suku Toraja di Sulawesi Selatan. Namun juga terdapat kelompok Suku Mandar yang mayoritas beragama Islam di kecamatan Mambi, Aralle dan sekitarnya atau disebut dengan Pitu ulunna salu (tujuh kerajaan hulu sungai). Pada tahun 2003-2005 terjadi konflik antara kedua kelompok yang menyebabkan korban jiwa dan banyak orang mengungsi. Hal ini terjadi saat Kabupaten Mamasa baru lahir, orang Mamasa setuju untuk dimekarkan sedangkan orang Mandar tetap ingin bergabung dengan Polewali.

The original inhabitants of Mamasa Regency are the Mamasa people, which is a sub-group of the Toraja people. Because the province of West Sulawesi was a division of the province of South Sulawesi, some of the indigenous people of South Sulawesi also live in West Sulawesi, and their largest ethnic groups are the Bugis and Makassar. There are also other immigrant ethnic groups such as the Javanese and Balinese.

The oldest evidence for humans on Sulawesi are stone tools produced by archaic humans, dating from over 200,000 to 100,000 years ago, that were found at the Talepu site in southwestern Sulawesi.

In 1367, several identified polities located on the island were mentioned in the Javanese manuscript Nagarakretagama dated from the Majapahit period. Canto 14 mentioned polities including Gowa, Makassar, Luwu and Banggai. It seems that by the 14th century, polities in the island were connected in an archipelagic maritime trading network, centered in the Majapahit port in East Java. By 1400, a number of nascent agricultural principalities had arisen in the western Cenrana valley, as well as on the south coast and on the west coast near modern Parepare.

The first Europeans to visit the island (which they believed to be an archipelago due to its contorted shape) were the Portuguese sailors Simão de Abreu in 1523, and Gomes de Sequeira (among others) in 1525, sent from the Moluccas in search of gold, which the islands had the reputation of producing. A Portuguese base was installed in Makassar in the first decades of the 16th century, lasting until 1665, when it was taken by the Dutch. The Dutch had arrived in Sulawesi in 1605 and were quickly followed by the English, who established a factory in Makassar. From 1660, the Dutch were at war with Gowa, the major Makassar west coast power. In 1669, Admiral Speelman forced the ruler, Sultan Hasanuddin, to sign the Treaty of Bongaya, which handed control of trade to the Dutch East India Company. The Dutch were aided in their conquest by the Bugis warlord Arung Palakka, ruler of the Bugis kingdom of Bone. The Dutch built a fort at Ujung Pandang, while Arung Palakka became the regional overlord and Bone the dominant kingdom. Political and cultural development seems to have slowed as a result of the status quo.

Mamasa Regency used to be part of Polewali Mamasa Regency, a former Indonesian Regency that used to be part of South Sulawesi but later became part of West Sulawesi province. In 2002, the regency was split into two smaller regencies: Polewali Mandar Regency which is located to the south (including the coastal region), and Mamasa Regency in the north (the mountain area). Polewali Mandar Regency is mainly inhabited by the Mandar ethnic group, while Mamasa Regency is home to the Mamasa people, who are related to the ethnic group Mamasa. Tana Toraja Regency on eastern border of Mamasa Regency.

Kabupaten Mamasa terletak pada ketinggian 600-2.000 meter di atas permukaan laut.

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