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Early Malacca

The Malay Sultanate of Malacca
كسلطانن ملايو ملاك
Kesultanan Melayu Melaka
1400–1511
The extent of the Sultanate in the 15th century
Capital Malacca
Languages Classical Malay
Religion Sunni Islam
Government Monarchy
Sultan
 •  1400–1414 Parameswara
 •  1414–1424 Megat Iskandar Shah
 •  1424–1444 Muhammad Shah
 •  1444–1446 Abu Syahid Shah
 •  1446–1459 Muzaffar Shah
 •  1459–1477 Mansur Shah
 •  1477–1488 Alauddin Riayat Shah
 •  1488–1511 Mahmud Shah
 •  1511–1513 Ahmad Shah
Bendahara
 •  1400–1412 (first) Tun Perpatih Permuka Berjajar
 •  1445–1456 Tun Ali
 •  1456–1498 Tun Perak
 •  1498–1500 Tun Perpatih Putih
Tun Mutahir
 •  1510–1511 Paduka Tuan
History
 •  Established 1400
 •  Portuguese invasion 1511
Currency Tin ingot, native gold and silver coins
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Kingdom of Singapura
Johor Sultanate
Perak Sultanate
Portuguese Malacca
Today part of  Malaysia
 Singapore
 Thailand
 Indonesia

The Malacca Sultanate (Malay: Kesultanan Melayu Melaka; Jawi script: كسلطانن ملايو ملاك) was a Malay sultanate centred in the modern-day state of Malacca, Malaysia. Conventional historical thesis marks c. 1400 as the founding year of the sultanate by a renegade Malay Raja of Singapura, Parameswara who was also known as Iskandar Shah. At the height of the sultanate's power in the 15th century, its capital grew into one of the most important entrepots of its time, with territory covering much of the Malay Peninsula, Riau Islands and a significant portion of the east coast of Sumatra.

As a bustling international trading port, Malacca emerged as a centre for Islamic learning and dissemination, and encouraged the development of the Malay language, literature and arts. It heralded the golden age of Malay sultanates in the archipelago, in which Classical Malay became the lingua franca of the Maritime Southeast Asia and Jawi script became the primary medium for cultural, religious and intellectual exchange. It is through these intellectual, spiritual and cultural developments, the Malaccan era witnessed the enculturation of a Malay identity, the Malayisation of the region and the subsequent formation of an Alam Melayu.


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