 Initially a common livelihood in the settlement was fishing and collecting "rebon" along the coast, making shrimp paste or petis udang from it.The term for water used in shrimp paste manufacture ("belendrang") is "cai rebon" (Sundanese for ""rebon" water"), which later gave its name to the town as "Cirebon".Most of the history of Cirebon Sultanate was found in a local Javanese chronicle known as Babad.