20 Facts About Portuguese Malacca

News of Portuguese Malacca's wealth attracted the attention of Manuel I, King of Portugal and he sent Admiral Diogo Lopes de Sequeira to find Portuguese Malacca, to make a trade compact with its ruler as Portugal's representative east of India.

Portuguese Malacca rallied the support from his ally the Sultanate of Demak in Java who, in 1511, agreed to send naval forces to assist.

The Portuguese Malacca retaliated and forced the sultan to flee to Pahang.

In 1521 the second Demak campaign to assist the Malay sultan to retake Portuguese Malacca was launched, however failed with the cost of the Demak sultan's life.

Portuguese Malacca was later remembered as Pangeran Sabrang Lor or the Prince who crossed to North .

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Portuguese Malacca left behind two sons named Muzaffar Shah and Alauddin Riayat Shah II.

Portuguese Malacca's realm was the Johor Sultanate, the successor of Malacca.

The combined forces attacked from the north and captured most of Malacca, but the Portuguese managed to retaliate and force back the invading forces.

Rather than achieving their ambition of dominating it, the Portuguese Malacca had fundamentally disrupted the organisation of the Asian trade network.

Rather than a centralised port of exchange of Asian wealth exchange, or a Malay state to police the Strait of Portuguese Malacca that made it safe for commercial traffic, trade was now scattered over a number of ports amongst bitter warfare in the Straits.

Malay Portuguese Malacca Sultanate was a tributary state and ally to Ming Dynasty China.

The Malaccan envoy told the Chinese of the deception the Portuguese used, disguising plans for conquering territory as mere trading activities, and told his tale of deprivations at the hands of the Portuguese.

The Malay Sultanate of Johor improved relations with the Portuguese Malacca and fought alongside them against the Aceh Sultanate.

The Java Chinese participation in retaking Portuguese Malacca was recorded in "The Malay Annals of Semarang and Cerbon".

At that time, the Portuguese had transformed Malacca into an impregnable fortress, the Fortaleza de Malaca, controlling access to the sea lanes of the Straits of Malacca and the spice trade in the region, where it repulsed an attack from Aceh in 1568.

In 1629, Iskandar Muda of the Aceh Sultanate sent several hundred ships to attack Portuguese Malacca, but the mission was a devastating failure.

Some original Muslim Malay inhabitants of Portuguese Malacca lived in the swamps of nypeiras tree, where they were known to make nypa wine by distillation for trade.

Portuguese Malacca itself was administered by the captain-major whose office was located inside the Fortaleza.

In 1552, Portuguese Malacca was granted a charter to become a camara equipped with its own Senado de Camara which normally consisted of fidalgos, procuradores dos mesteres and citizens acting on behalf of marginalised groups.

In 1571, an attempt was made by Sebastian I to establish three separate entities of his Asian colonial holdings with Portuguese Malacca being one sector under its own governor, though this effort did not come to fruition.