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  2. Monarchies of Malaysia - Wikipedia

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    The first Sultan, Sultan Alauddin Riayat Shah II was the son of the last Sultan of Malacca, who reigned from 1528. In the 19th century, with support from the British, the Temenggong family gained recognition as rulers of the state. Its first sultan, Maharaja Abu Bakar is known as the founder of "modern Johor". His descendants rule the state today.

  3. Malacca Sultanate - Wikipedia

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    The Malacca Sultanate (Malay: Kesultanan Melaka; Jawi script: کسلطانن ملاک‎) was a Malay sultanate based in the modern-day state of Malacca, Malaysia. Conventional historical thesis marks c.1400 as the founding year of the sultanate by King of Singapura, Parameswara, also known as Iskandar Shah, [ 1 ] although earlier dates for its ...

  4. Capture of Malacca (1511) - Wikipedia

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    The Capture of Malacca in 1511 occurred when the governor of Portuguese India Afonso de Albuquerque conquered the city of Malacca in 1511. The port city of Malacca controlled the narrow, strategic Strait of Malacca, through which all seagoing trade between China and India was concentrated. [8] The capture of Malacca was the result of a plan by ...

  5. History of Malaysia - Wikipedia

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    This was the first colonial claim in what is now Malaysia. [56] The son of the last Sultan of Malacca, Alauddin Riayat Shah II fled to the southern tip of the peninsula, where he founded a state that which became the Sultanate of Johor in 1528. [45] Another son, Muzaffar Shah I established the Perak Sultanate to the north.

  6. King of Malaysia - Wikipedia

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    King of Malaysia. The Yang di-Pertuan Agong, [a] unofficially known as the king of Malaysia, [3] is the constitutional monarch and head of state of Malaysia. The office was established in 1957, when the Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) gained independence from the United Kingdom. The Yang di-Pertuan Agong is elected by the Conference of ...

  7. Ibrahim Iskandar of Johor - Wikipedia

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    Tunku Ibrahim was born on 22 November 1958 at the Sultanah Aminah Hospital, Johor Bahru, during the reign of his great-grandfather, Sultan Ibrahim of Johor. He was the third child and eldest son of Sultan Iskandar by his first wife, Josephine Ruby Trevorrow, an English woman from Torquay. [5][6][7][8] Trevorrow, a proprietor by profession ...

  8. Parameswara of Malacca - Wikipedia

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    Father. Sri Maharaja. Religion. Hinduism. Parameswara (1344 – c. 1414), thought to be the same person named in the Malay Annals as Iskandar Shah, was the last king of Singapura and the founder of Malacca. According to the Malay Annals, he ruled Singapura from 1389 to 1398. The king fled the island kingdom after a Majapahit naval invasion in ...

  9. Malay Annals - Wikipedia

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    Malay Annals. The Malay Annals (Malay: Sejarah Melayu, Jawi: سجاره ملايو ‎), originally titled Sulalatus Salatin (Genealogy of Kings), [1] is a literary work that gives a romanticised history of the origin, evolution and destruction of the Malacca Sultanate. [2] The work, composed in the 17th century by court historians, draws from ...