Polity · 1459 CE – 1861 CE

Sultanate of Malacca

Kesultanan Melaka

Peak recorded area
229,697 km²
1526 CE
Rulers on record
3
from 1445 CE
Sources cited
2
see all

Overview

The Malacca Sultanate 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.

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Territory

31 dated territorial extents on record from Cliopatria. Areas are measured off the recorded polygons; the line steps because each extent holds until the next one is recorded — nothing is interpolated.

229.7K km²01459 CE1861 CE

See the 1526 CE borders on the map →

Rulers

3 on record with dated reigns. Reign years follow the house convention: BCE years are negative.

  1. Muzaffar Shah of MalaccaSultan of Malacca1445 CE – 1459 CE
  2. Mansur Shah of MalaccaSultan of Malacca1459 CE –
  3. Alauddin Riayat Shah of MalaccaSultan of Malacca1477 CE –

Language & currency

Official & national languages
Malay
Currency
tin ingot

Sources

Every figure above comes from one of these. Nothing on this page is estimated, interpolated or model-generated.

  • Cliopatria

    Seshat Global History Databank. Cliopatria: a historical basemap of polity borders (cliopatria.geojson).

  • Wikipedia

    Wikipedia contributors. Article lead sections, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

    CC BY-SA 4.0

Sultanate of Malacca is one of the polities with a sourced record deep enough to publish.

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