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  2. Malacca Sultanate - Wikipedia

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    The Malacca Sultanate (Malay: Kesultanan Melaka; Jawi script: کسلطانن ملاک ‎) was a Malay sultanate based in the modern-day state of Malacca, Malaysia. Conventional historical thesis marks c. 1400 as the founding year of the sultanate by King of Singapura, Parameswara , also known as Iskandar Shah, [ 1 ] although earlier dates for ...

  3. Historic Cities of the Straits of Malacca - Wikipedia

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    The listing was inscribed on the basis of Criterion (ii), "exhibit an important interchange of human values", [2] as the two cities are examples of multicultural trading forged from the exchange of Malay, Chinese and Indian cultures, and three successive European colonial powers over almost 500 years; Criterion (iii): "bearing unique testimony to a cultural tradition", [2] as the cities ...

  4. Malacca City - Wikipedia

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    Malacca City (Malay: Bandaraya Melaka or Kota Melaka) is the capital city of the Malaysian state of Malacca, in Melaka Tengah District. It is the oldest Malaysian city on the Straits of Malacca , having become a successful entrepôt in the era of the Malacca Sultanate .

  5. History of Malaysia - Wikipedia

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    By the start of the 16th century, with the Malacca Sultanate in the Malay Peninsula and parts of Sumatra, [89] the Demak Sultanate in Java, [90] and other kingdoms around the Malay Archipelago increasingly converting to Islam, [91] it had become the dominant religion among Malays, and reached as far as the modern-day Philippines, leaving Bali ...

  6. Malay Annals - Wikipedia

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    The Malay Annals is historical literature written in the form of narrative-prose with its main theme being lauding the greatness and superiority of Malacca. [32] The narration, while seemingly relating the story of the reign of the sultans of Malacca until the destruction of the sultanate by the Portuguese in 1511 and beyond, deals with a core issue of Malay statehood and historiography, the ...

  7. Kedah - Wikipedia

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    However, in Thai chronicles it is told that Kedah was a Thai city like Nakhon Si Thammarat and was a part of Siamese kingdom but later was changed into a Malay state after invasion of Muslim kingdoms. [23] It was later under Siam, until it was conquered by the Malay sultanate of Malacca in the 15th century.

  8. Sandakan - Wikipedia

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    Municipality and district capital in Sabah, Malaysia Sandakan Municipality and district capital Sandakan Town Bandar Sandakan Other transcription(s) • Jawi سنداکن • Chinese 山打根 Shāndǎgēn (Hanyu Pinyin) From top, left to right: Sandakan City, the Sandakan Municipal Council, the State Secretariat Building, Sandakan Sports Complex, the Sandakan Regional Library, the Sandakan ...

  9. Acehnese–Portuguese conflicts - Wikipedia

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    Malacca was the capital of the most important sultanate in the region and a prosperous trade center, through which all the trade between India, China and Insulindia flowed. Having gained animosity of the Portuguese, many Muslim merchants moved to Aceh, which also exported high-quality pepper, thereby developing this trade and increasing the ...