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Malacca sultanate
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1400–1511 state on the Malay Peninsula
Key facts
- Capital
- Malacca , (1400–1511) Bintan , (1511–1526) Kampar , (1526–1528)
- Common languages
- Classical Malay
- Religion
- Sunni Islam
- Demonym
- Malaccan
- Government
- Absolute monarchy
- 1400 1414
- Parameswara , (Iskandar Shah (disputed name))
- 1414 1424
- Megat Iskandar Shah
- 1424 1444
- Muhammad Shah
- 1444 1446
- Abu Syahid Shah
- 1446 1459
- Muzaffar Shah
- 1459 1477
- Mansur Shah
- 1477 1488
- Alauddin Riayat Shah
- 1488 1511
- Mahmud Shah
- 1511 1513
- Ahmad Shah
- 1513 1528
- Mahmud Shah
- 1400 1412
- Tun Perpatih Besar (first)
- 1445 1456
- Tun Ali
- 1456 1498
- Tun Perak
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- inception
- 1400-00-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1511-08-15
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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, although earlier dates for its founding have been proposed. At the height of the sultanate's power in the 15th century, its capital grew into one of the most important transshipment ports of its time, with territory covering much of the Malay Peninsula, the Riau Islands and part of the central eastern coast of Sumatra in present-day Indonesia.