Ancient history

Sultanate of Malacca | Malay Dynasty, Southeast Asia

Sultanate of Malacca (1403? –1511), Malay Dynasty that's the big company Malacca (Melaka) and its dependencies ruled and the golden age of Malay history granted still in Idioms and institutions. The founder and first ruler of Malacca, Paramesvara (d. 1424, Malacca), a Sumatran prince who under Javanese attack from his hometown Palembang , briefly settled into Tumasik (now Singapore) and settled in Malacca in the late 14th century or early 15th century low. Malacca, at a beautiful natural harbor, commanded the main sea route between India and China through the street that now bears her name. Paramesvara who became a Muslim and 1414 the title Sultan Iskandar Shah assumed, built side relationships early to Ming China and benefited greatly from that kingdom's renewed interest in trade with the West. In the 1430s the city was the pre-eminent trading center in Southeast Asia used by local traders, Indian, Arabic, and Persian merchants, and Chinese trade missions alike.

Little is known about Iskandar Shah's immediate successor, but under the following ruler, Sultan Muzaffar Shah (r. 1445–59?), the city-state, became an important territorial and commercial power in the region and to a source for further Spread of Islam within the Indonesian archipelago. Shortly after his succession, Muzaffar Shah, Malacca's chief peninsular competitor, the Thai kingdom of Ayutthaya, refused to pay the customary tribute, and his forces repelled two punitive Siamese expeditions in 1445 and 1456 and later acquired Selangor in the northwest as a source of food and control of strategic parts of the Coast Sumatran across the strait.

During this period a warrior leader was known as Tun Perak (d. 1498) came to the fore. 1456 he became by Muzaffar Shah to Bendahara (Prime Minister). Tun Perak then played a dominant role in the history of the state and ensured the succession of the next three rulers - sultans Mansur Shah, reigned c.1459–77; Alaʾud-din, 1477–88; and Mahmud Shah , 1488-1511, all of whom were related to him and an aggressive pursuit Foreign Policy which saw the sultanate established as a tributary rich the entirety of the encompassing Malay Peninsula and much of eastern Sumatra. At the court itself, especially under Mansur Shah, the wealth of the state allowed for great diversity and display, encouraging the growth of literature and learning, and a lively political and religious life, later celebrated in the Malay Classic Chronicle Sejarah Melayu ( um 1612). The city finally fell to the Portuguese in 1511.