Today 15 April 2024 marked 35th Declaration Bandar Melaka (MALACCA) as Historical City.
Malacca City was declared as a UNESCO Historic City on April 15th 1989. 500 years ago,
Malay Sultanate city was a trading and cultural exchanges between East and West in the Straits of Malacca.
In addition, malay old manuscripts (hikayat) has stated skilled sailors helming the big vessels in the Malay maritime voyage stories such as Mendam Berahi and Bunga Rampai Layangan Angin. They go as far as Vietnam, China, Egypt, Mecca and crossing Cape Horn to Istanbul.
“Five centuries ago, Malacca hosted 2,000 ships each day, as many as crowd into modern
Simon Elegant who wrote in the Far Eastern Economic Review, June 10, 1999:45,
day Singapore [sic], which boast of being one of the worlds three busiest ports. Cargoes of
mace, nutmeg, cloves, sandalwood, tea, porcelains and silks passed through Melacca on
their way to spice-hungry Europe. From the islands of the Archipelago to the south came
camphor, birds’ nests, pepper, musk, gold and ivory. And from the West, mostly carried by
traders from South Asia and the Middle East, came cotton, weapons, incense, opium, dyes,
silver and medicinal drugs, as well as occasional bands of adventurous Portuguese.
It was a place where Gujratis, Tamils and Bengalis from India lived and traded in secure
harmony with Malays, Chinese and Arabs, a city of 100,000 where 84 languages could be
heard in the Markets The Malay sultans who ruled Malacca ensured that the strait was free
of pirates. Goods could be stored safely in hundreds of well-guarded godowns, and in case
of dispiutes, the city’s law were administered fairly to both Malaccans and foreigners”.
based on Suma Oriental of Tome Pires.
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