Malacca,Mother of Malaysia History.
Istana Malacca Museum
Present-day Malacca reflects its
tumultuous history - a multy-racial population of Malays, Indians, and Chinese
call this historic city home. Most notably, Peranakan and Portuguese
communities still thrive in Malacca, a reminder of the state's long experience
with trading and colonization start from Portugese, Deutch, British and Japanesse.
Malacca's founder, the ex-pirate
Prince Parameswara, was said to be a descendant of Alexander the Great, but
it's more likely that he was a Hindu political refugee from Sumatra.
According to legend, the Prince was
resting one day under an Indian gooseberry tree (also known as a malacca). As he
watched one of his hunting dogs trying to bring down a mouse deer, it occurred
to him that the deer shared a similar plight to his own: alone, exiled in a
foreign land and surrounded by enemies. The mouse deer then achieved the
improbable and fought off the dog.
Parameswara decided that the place
where he was sitting was a propitious one for the disadvantaged to triumph, so
decided to build a house on the spot.
Malacca did indeed turn out to be a
favorable place to found a town, due to its sheltered harbor, its abundant
water supply and its prime location relative to the regional trade and monsoon
wind patterns.
That was a short story of Malacca and at there have many of story and history happen at Malacca. Malacca also can we call as old Malaysian version compare to now, without Malacca nowadays maybe Malaysian as not much as now.
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