The site the city of Melaka stands today was the center of Malaccan history. It was the capital of the Melaka Sultanate and was the centre of the Malay world in the 15th and the 16th century after the Malays moved over from Sumatra and was the most prosperous Entrepôt and city of the Malay Archipelago before it fell to the hand of Portuguese in 1511. Centuries of colonization by the Portuguese, Dutch and the British as well as development of Straits Chinese (Peranakan) culture have influenced the architecture of the town, notably the Portuguese A Famosa, Dutch Stadthuys, and the Dutch~Chinese~British influenced traditional town houses along Jonker Walk, Heeren Street, Goldsmith Street, Blacksmith Street and Harmony Street. An UNESCO Heritage Site. 满剌加国（马六甲王朝）的建立者是拜里米苏拉国王。他是一位在1396年为了对付敌人满者伯夷国而离开三佛齐巨港(今苏门答腊)的王子。 Antique to Astrology, Fabric to Food, from History to Heritage … to Zodiac Study, the old and the new of the good, the bad and the ugly. Less than 10 % of Asia almost 4,200,000,000 (2012) people have walk in the junk road influenced by Admiral Zheng He, Afonso de Albuquerque, Sultan Muzaffar Syah, Johan van Twist, Archibald Brown, Parameswara, Sir Stamford Raffles, Saint Francis Xavier, Tun Tan Cheng Lock, Tunku Abdul Rahman and so on. If you have been to Jonker Walk, share it with your friends; if you have not been to Jonker Walk, also share it with your friends. Thank you. Have a nice day.
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