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 part of Portuguese attempts to gain control of trade in the region. Although multiple attempts to conquer it were repulsed, the city was eventually lost to an alliance of Dutch and regional forces, thus beginning a period of Dutch rule.
Portuguese Malacca in Lendas da India by Gaspar Correia, ca. 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 Capture of Malacca in 1511 occurred when the governor of Portuguese India Afonso de Albuquerque conquered the city of Malacca in 1511.
The surviving gate of the Fortress of Malacca, Porta do Santiago
Portuguese watercolour of Malayan people of Malacca, circa 1540, featured in the Códice Casanatense
An illustration of a Malay couple, from Reise nach Batavia, between 1669 and 1682
A Malay soldier armed with a spear and a keris.