The history of the town of Melaka is full of the glorious past of Malaysia. Melaka probably was established in the thirteenth century as a small fishing village occupied by the Orang Laut (seafaring Malays). Its humble existence then as a collection of...

(1403?–1511) Malay dynasty that ruled the great entrepôt of Malacca (Melaka) and its dependencies. Malacca, which commanded the main sea route between India and China, was founded by Paramesvara (died 1424), who converted to Islam and took...

The Sultanate of Malacca was founded by Parameswara in 1402 and later married the princess of Pasai in 1409. Centered in the modern town of Malacca, the sultanate stretched from southern Thailand in the north to Sumatra in the southwest. The Portuguese...

This is a delightfully old-fashioned little volume, with glossy cardboard covers and maps of Southeast Asia and Malacca along with twenty-six photographs in both black and white and sumptuous color. Today, in bustling and thriving Southeast Asia, Malacca looks like a town that...

SAN FRANCISCO LARRY SULTAN SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART The San Fernando Valley, the collection of middle- and upper-middle-class neighborhoods and industrial parks that sprawls along the arid flatlands behind the Hollywood sign, is notorious as an ur-suburb, the location...