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This colonial carve-up partitioned the Malay world through the Melaka Straits.
Easter: Peninsular Eurasians and indigenous Christian converts in Sarawak and Sabah celebrate with Good Friday processions, the most famous being organized by the Portuguese community of Melaka at St. Peter’s Church.
At the same time, Sufi mystics synthesized Islamic teaching with local Malay traditions of animistic magic and charisma, though Islam did not become the state religion until Muzaffar Shah became sultan of Melaka (1446–1459).
Around the year 1400, fighting over the island of Singapore drove the Srivijaya prince Parameswara to seek refuge up the peninsula coast with his orang laut pirate friends in their small fishing village of Melaka.
Singapore became the capital of the Straits Settlements — as the EIC called its Malay holdings incorporating Penang and Melaka — and was the linchpin of Britain’s 150-year presence in the region.