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Close ✕Malacca (Melaka)
A port on the strait that carries traffic between the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea, founded around 1400 and rapidly dominant in regional trade.
2.2, 102.3 · approximate · c. 1400 CE - present
On the world
- A place in: How Belief Travelled · 8 places
- A place in: Age of Exploration · 8 places
- Joined to: Malacca (Melaka) — The Moluccas (Maluku Islands) · 2 places
Lines mark links and orders the records assert; no path between any two places is recorded, and none is drawn.
Connections · 3 of 4
- is connected to of SEA-ME-WE 5 — Malacca in Malaysia is one of the system's landing points, on the same water that made the town a trading port.
- connected to The Moluccas (Maluku Islands) — Malacca was the entrepôt through which Moluccan cloves, nutmeg and mace passed on their way to Indian Ocean and European buyers.
- state adopted Islam — The ruling house's fifteenth-century conversion turned the strait's dominant port into a distribution node for Islam across the archipelago's trading partners.
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