Malacca Strait is a narrow stretch of water,500 mi long and from 40 to 155 mi wide,located between the Indonesian island of Sumatra to the southwest and the Malay Peninsula to the northeast,connecting the Andaman Sea with the Singapore Strait and the South China Sea. As the main shipping channel between the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea,it is one of the most important shipping lanes in the world. It is named after the Phyllanthus emblica,which is known by the locals as the Malaka tree,grown in coastal regions alongside the strait.
The Singapore Strait is a 113 km-long (70 mi),19 km-wide (12 mi) strait between the Strait of Malacca in the west and the South China Sea in the east. Singapore is on the north of the channel,and the Indonesian Riau Islands are on the south. The two countries share a maritime border along the strait.
The Johor Sultanate was founded by Malaccan Sultan Mahmud Shah's son,Sultan Alauddin Riayat Shah II in 1528.
Cornelis Matelief de Jonge was a Dutch admiral who was active in establishing Dutch power in Southeast Asia during the beginning of the 17th century. His fleet was officially on a trading mission,but its true intent was to destroy Portuguese power in the area. The fleet had 1400 men on board,including 600 soldiers. Matelieff did not succeed in this. The Dutch would ultimately gain control of Malacca more than thirty years later,again joining forces with the Sultanate of Johor,and a new ally Aceh,in 1641. He was born and died in Rotterdam.
Santa Catarina was a Portuguese merchant ship,a 1500-ton carrack,that was seized by the Dutch East India Company on 25 February 1603 off Singapore. She was such a rich prize that her sale proceeds increased the capital of the VOC by more than 50%. From the large amounts of Ming Chinese porcelain captured in this ship,Chinese pottery became known in Holland as Kraakporselein,or "carrack-porcelain" for many years.
Tanjung Tuan is an area in Alor Gajah District,Malacca,Malaysia. It is a semi-exclave of Malacca adjacent to Port Dickson,Negeri Sembilan.
A Famosa was a Portuguese fortress built in Malacca,Malaysia,circa 1512. The oldest part of the fortress was a five-storey keep which eventually gave its name to the fortress as a whole. Some time following the Battle of Malacca (1641) and the occupation of the city by the Dutch,the keep was destroyed but the outer walls of the fortress were expanded. However,in 1811 the British destroyed all of the original fortress and most of the outer walls. The Porta de Santiago gateway,and the rebuilt Middelburg Bastion,are the only parts of the fortress that remain today.
Johor Lama is a mukim in Kota Tinggi District,Johor,Malaysia. It is situated on the banks of Johor River. It was once a thriving port and the old capital of the Johor Sultanate.
The early history of Singapore refers to its pre-colonial era before 1819,when the British East India Company led by Stamford Raffles established a trading settlement on the island and set in motion the history of modern Singapore.
Juan de Silva was a Spanish military commander and governor of the Philippines,from April 1609 until his death on April 19,1616.
The Battle of Cape Rachado,off the present-day Malaccan exclave of Cape Rachado in 1606,was an important naval engagement between the Dutch East India Company and Portuguese fleets.
Tun Muhammad bin Tun Ahmad,better known as Tun Sri Lanang,was the Bendahara of the royal Court of Johor Sultanate who lived between the 16th and 17th centuries. He served under two Sultans of Johor,namely;Sultan Ali Jalla Abdul Jalil Shah II (1570–1597) and Sultan Alauddin Riayat Shah III (1597–1615) and also advisers to 3 Acheh sultans namely;Sultan Iskandar Muda,Sultan Iskandar Thani (1636–1641) and Sultana Tajul Alam Safiatuddin Shah (1641–1675). He had two honorific titles throughout his lifetime;as the Bendahara of Johor,Bendahara Paduka Raja Tun Mohamad,while he was given the title of Orang Kaya Dato' Bendahara Seri Paduka Tun Seberang after settling in Aceh.
The names of Singapore include the various historical appellations as well as contemporary names and nicknames in different languages used to describe the island,city or country of Singapore. A number of different names have been given to the settlement or the island of Singapore all through history,the earliest record may have been from the 2nd century AD. Possible mentions of Pulau Ujong,the name for the island of Singapore,may be found in Chinese works,and it was also referred to as Temasek in Malay and Javanese literature. Sometime in the 14th century the name was changed to Singapura,which is now rendered as Singapore in English. Singapura means "Lion City" in Sanskrit,and Sang Nila Utama is usually credited with naming the city,although its actual origin is uncertain.
Sultan Alauddin Riayat Shah III was the Sultan of Johor who reigned from 1597 to 1615. He resided at the new capital of Johor at Batu Sawar,but later moved his administration to Pasir Raja around 1609. In 1612,at the instigation of his co-ruler and half-brother Abdullah,and Bendahara Tun Sri Lanang oversaw the editorial and compilation process of the Sejarah Melayu,the most important Malay literary work of all time.
Sultan Abdullah Ma'ayat Shah was Sultan of Johor from 1615 to 1623. Before he became sultan of Johor,Abdullah Ma'ayat Shah was also known as Raja Bongsu,Raja Seberang or Raja di Hilir. Kota Seberang was described as the personal "fiefdom" of Raja Bongsu by Admiral Matelieff. He controlled the settlement which was located almost straight across the Johor River from the royal administrative center and capital Batu Sawar. He is also said to have controlled areas around the Sambas River on the island of Borneo.
Fort Oranje is a 17th century Dutch fort on the island of Ternate in Indonesia.
Malacca,officially the Historic State of Malacca,is a state in Malaysia located in the southern region of the Malay Peninsula,facing the Strait of Malacca. The state is bordered by Negeri Sembilan to the north and west and Johor to the south. The exclave of Tanjung Tuan also borders Negeri Sembilan to the north. Its capital is Malacca City,which has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 7 July 2008. Malacca City is 148 kilometres southeast of Malaysia's capital city Kuala Lumpur,235 kilometres northwest of Johor's largest city Johor Bahru and 95 km northwest of Johor's second largest city,Batu Pahat.
The Seri Rambai is a seventeenth-century Dutch cannon displayed at Fort Cornwallis in George Town,the capital city of the Malaysian state of Penang and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is the largest bronze gun in Malaysia,a fertility symbol and the subject of legends and prophecy.
Manuel Godinho de Erédia,or Emanuel Godinho de Erédia,was a Bugis-Portuguese writer and cartographer. He wrote a number of books,including an early account of the Malay Peninsula that is a source of information on the region of that period. In the early 17th century,he became interested in exploring a "southern land",which is thought to be Australia.
The Acehnese launched their invasion of Johor between 1613 and 1615 to subjugate and vassalize the Johor Sultanate,as part of the Acehenese expansion in the Malay peninsula under Iskandar Muda reign.
