The Bruneian Empire or Empire of Brunei is a Malay Sultanate, centered in Brunei on the northern coast of Borneo island in Southeast Asia.

The kingdom was founded in the early seventh century, starting as a small seafaring trading kingdom ruled by a native pagan or Hindu king known by the Chinese as Po-Li or Po-Ni.

Bruneian kings convert to Islam in about the fifteenth century, after which it grows substantially since the fall of Malacca to the Portuguese, extending throughout coastal areas of Borneo and the Philippines, before declining in the seventeenth century.