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.
Siege of Bintan
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The siege of Bintan of 1526 was a military operation in which Portuguese forces successfully sieged, assaulted and destroyed the city of Bintan, capital of the former Sultan of Malacca Mahmud Shah.
Dom Pedro Mascarenhas.
