What is it about?
This is an encyclopedia article touching on the history of the Malacca Empire from its founding around 1400 until 1528.
Featured Image
Why is it important?
The Malacca Sultanate was one of the most important Southeast Asian empires of the precolonial period.
Perspectives
This article does not take the view that the Malacca Sultanate ended with the Portuguese conquest in 1511, but rather with the founding of Johor and Perak in 1528.
Dr Peter Borschberg
National University of Singapore
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: Melaka (Malacca) Sultanate, January 2016, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/9781118455074.wbeoe144.
You can read the full text:
Contributors
The following have contributed to this page
