I was on a liquor-drenched party boat that was sailing in the Strait of Malacca, one of the busiest and most important shipping lanes in the world today, when I saw its namesake in the distance.

He grew up in one of the most tumultuous times of the Malacca sultanate. He was a youth when the third Sultan of Malacca, Muhammad Syah, died. Through the cunning plot of the late sultan's Rokan ...

In addition, they served as mercenary soldiers and formed a significant part of the Malacca sultanate’s army. Fifteenth-century Malacca had a Javanese settlement, Kampung Jawa, at Bandar Hilir.

In one part of the Southeast Asian epic Sejarah Melayu, the 15 th century Malacca Sultanate receives a lavish gift from the distant emperor of China, then ruled by the Ming Dynasty. The Ming ...

Then in 1699 the Malacca Strait’s dominant power, Johor Sultanate, lost its monarch to assassination. With no blood successor to succeed him, Johor’s influence waned and a power vacuum emerged.

Melaka and George Town, historic cities of the Straits of Malacca have developed over 500 years of trading ... early stages of this history originating in the 15th-century Malay sultanate and the ...

I was on a liquor-drenched party boat that was sailing in the Strait of Malacca, one of the busiest and most important shipping lanes in the world today, when I saw its namesake in the distance.