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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.
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.
In 1409, under a new directive from Emperor Chu Ti to pursue trade in the South Seas and the Indian Ocean, a Chinese fleet of 50 ships headed by Admiral Cheng Ho called in at Melaka.
This colonial carve-up partitioned the Malay world through the Melaka Straits.
Unity among them and the east coast communities trading with the Thais, Indochinese, and Chinese came from their shared rice economy, language, Islamic culture, and political and social customs inherited from the Melaka sultanate.