History

Melaka have been greatly known for it amazing history that actually the start of something good in Tanah Melayu back then. As people state that Melaka have pretty good controlling their monarchy and that kind of ruling are still used in nowadays government.

Sketch of parameswara

The history of Melaka begins with the fascinating and partly legendary tale of the Hindu prince Parameswara.

A popular account puts the Prince as out hunting one day and while resting under a tree, one of his dogs cornered a mouse-deer or 'pelandok'.
 when he saw a white mouse-deer or pelanduk kick one of his hunting dogs. He was so impressed by the mouse-deer's brave character that he on that spot, decided to build a city at there. He asked one of his servants the name of the tree under which he was resting and, being informed that the tree was called a Malaka,. Thus, Melaka is the name to the heroic city. The year back then was 1400.

white pelanduk kick the dog in front of Parameswara.

Fortunately for Parameswara, Melaka was a strategic point where it was Midway along the straits that linked China to India and the Near East, Malacca was perfectly positioned as a center for maritime trade.

As time went on, Melaka grew bigger and bigger and became more and more prosperous. Parameswara, incidentally, was the first Malay prince to become a Muslim and inevitably, Islam became the religion of Malays in the Peninsular (now West Malaysia). 

Sadly, Under Sultan Mansur Shah (1456 - 1477), Melaka's fame and wealth not long after caught the attention of the expansionist Europeans with the Portuguese who are becoming the first to arrive and eventually conquering the land. They were led by Alfonso d'Albuquerque.    

Soon after that, Melaka are continuously were rule by other country such as British and Japanese. 
Independence did not arrive until 1957, when anti-colonial sentiment culminated in a proclamation of independence by His Highness Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj, Malaysia's first Prime Minister.

celebrating Merdeka