Portuguese Malacca
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Portuguese control of Malacca—a city on the Malay Peninsula—spanned a 130 year period from 1511 to 1641 as a possession of the Portuguese East Indies. It was captured from the Malacca Sultanate as par
Portuguese Malacca in Lendas da India by Gaspar Correia, c. 1550–1563.
Construction of Malacca City: Intramuros Anno 1604 by Manuel Godinho de Eredia
Siege of Malacca by the Acehnese in 1568.
Portuguese Malacca tin coins of King Emmanuel (1495–1521) and John III (1521–1557) period were discovered during an excavation near the Malacca River mouth by W. Edgerton, Resident Councilor of Malacca in 1900.
Capture of Malacca (1511)
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The governor of Portuguese India Afonso de Albuquerque conquered the city of Malacca in 1511.
Portuguese Malacca
…control of Malacca—a city on the Malay Peninsula—spanned a 130 year period from 1511 to 1641 as a possession of the Portuguese East Indies. It was captured from the Malacca Sultanate as part of Portuguese attempts to gain control of trade in the region. Although multiple attempts to conquer it were repulsed…
Portuguese watercolour of Malayan people of Malacca, c. 1540, featured in the Códice Casanatense
An illustration of a Malay couple, from Reise nach Batavia, between 1669 and 1682
Diogo Lopes de Sequeira.
16th-century Portuguese carrack.