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Melaka River on 3 January 2006. A modern waterfront photograph illustrating a historic trading setting; these are not claimed to be fifteenth-century buildings.
Picture source & rightsPhilip Nalangan / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0 · Resized and converted to WebP · Licence terms

Asia / Trade

Melaka and Johor: ports, sultanates and the Straits world

The Malay Peninsula’s maritime history was shaped by Asian merchants and sultanates as well as European conquest. Melaka’s capture did not bring the political and commercial world around it to an end.

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