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Sultanate of Malacca and the Malay maritime network (c. 1400–1511)

Sultanate of Malacca and the Malay maritime network (c. 1400–1511)

  1. Parameswara establishes Malacca as a new port polity

    Labels: Parameswara, Malacca Port

  2. Malacca enters tributary relations with Ming China

    Labels: Ming China, Malacca

  3. Iskandar Shah associated with Malacca’s Islamization

    Labels: Iskandar Shah, Malaccan court

  4. Malacca’s mid-15th-century expansion accelerates

    Labels: Malacca Sultanate, Malay maritime

  5. Muzaffar Shah’s forces repel Siamese pressure

    Labels: Muzaffar Shah, Ayutthaya

  6. Tun Perak appointed bendahara (chief minister)

    Labels: Tun Perak, Bendahara

  7. Mansur Shah’s reign marks Malacca’s high point

    Labels: Mansur Shah, Malacca Sultanate

  8. Tun Perak’s death signals political turning point

    Labels: Tun Perak, Malaccan court

  9. Diogo Lopes de Sequeira reaches Malacca

    Labels: Diogo Lopes, Portuguese envoy

  10. Portuguese forces capture Malacca

    Labels: Afonso de, Portuguese Malacca

  11. Tomé Pires documents Malacca’s trade world

    Labels: Tom Pires, Suma Oriental

  12. Mahmud Shah continues resistance from Bintan base

    Labels: Mahmud Shah, Bintan

  13. Portuguese attack Mahmud Shah’s fortified position at Pago

    Labels: Pago, Portuguese forces

  14. Battle of Bintan (Portuguese assault repelled)

    Labels: Battle of, Portuguese assault

  15. Portuguese destroy Mahmud Shah’s Bintan capital

    Labels: Bintan capital, Portuguese destruction

  16. Sejarah Melayu rewritten; Malacca’s memory canonized

    Labels: Sejarah Melayu, Malay Annals