Muar Town is one of the cleanest cities in South East Asia, being awarded with Asean Clean Tourist City Standard Award 2017 recently.
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17 Facts About Muar Town
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Muar Town is rich in history as mentioned in many historical records and archaeological works.
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In 1361, it was claimed that Muar Town was a part of the Majapahit empire.
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Muar Town is the home for the one and only tomb of the seventh Malacca Sultanate, Sultan Alauddin Riayat Shah I .
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Muar Town was sparsely populated in 1855 and had a population of 800 and no formal structure of government was formed.
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Eleven years later in 1873, attempts made by Suliwatang to collect custom taxes from inhabitants at the Muar Town estuary led to further conflict with Temenggong Abu Bakar's men.
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Muar Town celebrated its centenary in a grand celebration attended by the Sultan of Johor in 1984.
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Prosperity and rapid development of Muar made it the only town in Malaysia ever to have had its own local railway network in the early days.
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Muar Town was not spared from this dreadful disaster which lasted almost a month.
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Sultan Ismail Bridge, the first bridge across the Muar River is the landmark of the town, built in 1960 and completed in 1962 to replace old ferry services in the 1960s.
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Muar Town is the only district in Johor that has its own Custom and Excise Duty Department office and checkpoint at its own jetty.
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Muar Town is internationally well known as the hub of the furniture industry of Malaysia.
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Industrial estates within Muar Town district are located at Tanjung Agas, Bukit Bakri, Jorak, Parit Bakar, Pagoh and Tangkak.
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Muar Town being the royal city of Johor have an official royal palace with a helipad situated at the Muar Town river bank at Jalan Petrie near Tanjung Emas.
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Also available in Muar Town is sirap bandung, which is normally served during Malay wedding receptions, but easily available at most Malay food stalls and restaurant.
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Muar Town is the birthplace of several type of Zapin dances like Zapin Lenga, Zapin Parit Bagan, Zapin Muar Town and Zapin Putar Alam and the Ceracap Inai dance.
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