About Melaka you need to know

The history begins with the founding of the Malacca Sultanate of Malacca by Parameswara, a noble from Palembang Srivijaya, in the years between 1400 to 1403.

Annals of the third derivative of Sri Maharaja Sang Home Batara Sri Tri Buana Annals (Sang Nila Utama), a rectifier king of Srivijaya. Sang Nila Utama established Singapore Old and in power for 48 years. His authority extended by his son Prince Sri Pekerma Royal Hero (1372 - 1386) who later continued by his grandson, Paduka Seri Rana Wira Kerma (1386-1399). In the year 1401, Annals putrra from Seri Rana Wira Kerma, displaced from Tumasik after getting attack from Majapahit.

Annals initially became king in Singapore in the 1390s. The state is then attacked by Java and Siam, which forced him to move more to the north. Chronic Annals of the Ming Dynasty was recorded live in the new capital city of Malacca in 1403, a Ming fleet was sent to the south to find it. In consideration given tribute Imperial China agreed to provide protection in the new government.

Annals later converted to Islam after marrying a princess from Pasai. Report from the visit of Admiral Cheng Ho in 1409 reported that at the time of the Annals still powerful, and the king and Malacca had become Muslim. In 1414 Annals replaced his son, Sultan Megat Iskandar Shah.

Megat Iskandar Shah ruled for 10 years, and was succeeded by Sultan Muhammad Shah. Prince Sultan Muhammad Shah who then replaced it, Raja Ibrahim, seem to be a convert to Islam, and took the title Sri Parameswara Dewa Shah. Yet only 17 months of his reign, and he died as killed in 1445, community call Melaka Sultan Abu Shahid. Seayahnya brother, Raja Kasim, then replace it with the title of Sultan Muzaffar Shah.

Under the reign of Sultan Muzaffar Shah of Malacca to do the expansion in the Malay Peninsula and the eastern coast of Sumatra (Kampar and Inderagiri). This fishing anger Siamese regarded Malacca as subordinate Orissa, which at the time was a vassal of Siam. But the attack on the 1455 and 1456 Siamese can be broken by Malacca.

Under the reign of the king who ascended the throne in 1459, Sultan Mansur Shah of Malacca invaded Orissa and Gujarat, and make vassal state. Under the same sultan of Johor, Jambi and Riau also subdued. Thus Melaka fully operate both onshore flank the Strait of Malacca.

Sultan Mansur Shah in power until his death in 1477. He was succeeded by his son Sultan Alauddin Shah Riayat. Sultan's rule for 11 years, when he died and was succeeded by his son Sultan Mahmud Shah.

Sultan Mahmud Shah of Malacca ruled until 1511, when the capital of the Portuguese army attacked under the command of Alfonso de Albuquerque. Attacks began on August 10, 1511 and was conquered on August 24, 1511. Sultan Mahmud Shah fled to Bentan and establish a new capital there. In 1526 the Portuguese had destroyed Bentan, and Sultan fled to Kampar, Sumatra, where he died two years later. Mudzaffar son Sultan Shah I, the Sultan of Perak became the first, while the other son of Sultan Alauddin Shah Riayat II founded a new kingdom of Johor.

Malacca Sultanate ruled the city for 110 years until the defeat to the Portuguese in 1511.

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Malacca was conquered by Alfonso de Albuquerque, a Portuguese Viceroy on August 24, 1511 and made it a strategic base for Portuguese expansion in the East Indies. Sultan Mahmud Shah, the last Sultan of Malacca, fled to the interior and cause difficulty for the Portuguese with intermittent attacks from the mainland and the sea. Finally, in 1526, the same group of ships under Pedro Mascarenhaas sent by Portugal to destroy the city Bentan protect Sultan Mahmud. Sultan Mahmud fled across the Strait of Malacca to Kampar in Sumatra where he died two years later.

St. Francis Xavier, a Jesuit missionary, lived in the city for several months in 1545, 1546 and 1549 due to make Malacca as the center of operations in the East.

In 1641, the Dutch conquered Malacca by the Portuguese with the assistance penewasan Sultan of Johor. However, the Netherlands is not interested in making Malacca as a trading center between East and West, but they are more concerned in Batavia (Jakarta) in Indonesia as their administrative center.

Fort A 'Formosa: Demolition of the British stopped by Sir Stamford Raffles in 1808 when he stopped at Malacca. What remains preserved to this day.

The Dutch surrender Malacca to the British by the Anglo-Dutch Treaty in 1824. From 1826 to 1867, Malacca was ruled by the British East India Company (British East India Company), and later became a British colony. It became part of the Straits Settlements (Straits Settlements), together with Singapore and Penang in 1946. After the dissolution of the colony, Malacca and Penang became part of the Malayan Union, which later became Malaysia.

Malacca declared "Historical City" on April 15, 1989.

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