![]() ![]() However, the city was taken over by the Dutch a century later and by the British in the next century. The Portuguese built a near-impregnable fort called A Famosa to protect their conquest. He made several attempts to retake Malacca but to no avail.Ī tricycle bedecked in pink may be the best way to see the town! The last Sultan of Malacca, Sultan Mahmud, fled to Johor. Portuguese conquest brought the Malacca Sultanate to an end. ![]() The spice trade was so lucrative and Malacca's position so strategic that the Portuguese, under the helm of Alfonso De Albuquerque, seized control of the port city in 1511. Malacca's fame rest on the fact that it used to be the hub for the spice trade in centuries past. We made a day trip to Historic Malacca early in October ('we' meaning Charmaine Augustin, Lee Yulie, Catherine and yours truly).
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