The Malay Annals relate that Parameswara was a fourteenth-century Palembang prince who, fleeing from a Javanese enemy, escaped to the island of Temasik (present-day Singapore) and quickly established himself as its king. Shortly afterward, however, Parameswara was driven out of Temasik by an invasion by the Siamese, and with a small band of followers set out along the west coast of the Malay peninsula in search of a new refuge. The refugees settled first at Muar, Johor, but they were quickly driven away by a vast and implacable horde of monitor lizards; the second spot chosen seemed equally unfavorable, as the fortress that the refugees began to build fell to ruins immediately. Parameswara moved on. Soon afterward, during a hunt near the mouth of a river called Bertam, he saw a white mouse-deer or ''pelanduk'' kick one of his hunting dogs. So impressed was he by the mouse-deer's brave gesture that he decided immediately to build a city on the spot. He asked one of his servants the name of the tree under which he was resting and, being informed that the tree was called a Malaka, gave that name to the city. The year was 1400.
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Parameswara is a man that responsible to open Malacca (Melaka) and to make malacca as the main marine entrepot of south east asia throughout the 14th & early 15th century. He is also the great grandson to Sang Nila Utama which is the person who opened and found Singapore/ Singapura (Temasek).
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Did You Know?
Parameswara is a man that responsible to open Malacca (Melaka) and to make malacca as the main marine entrepot of south east asia throughout the 14th & early 15th century. He is also the great grandson to Sang Nila Utama which is the person who opened and found Singapore/ Singapura (Temasek).
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