But it was. At the height of its power and influence in the 15th century, the territories of the Malacca sultanate covered the entire Malay Peninsula, including Singapura (modern-day Singapore ...

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.

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.

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.

MALACCA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - A recent discovery might provide the proof that early settlers in Malacca, including the Malay Sultanate era, were large in structure.

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

Melaka and George Town, historic cities of the Straits of Malacca have developed over 500 years of trading and cultural exchanges between East and West in the Straits of Malacca. The influences of ...

A drawing of ancient Malacca from a Travel Book by Giulio Ferrario. Once a powerful sultanate that cultivated ties with Ming dynasty China, it fell to Portuguese invaders in 1511.