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Governed by the great bendahara Mutahir with more diplomacy than military force, the sultanate asserted its supremacy over the whole Malay peninsula (except for the northernmost Thai-held Patani region) and across the Melaka Straits to the east coast of Sumatra.
Prosperity was based entirely on the entrepot trade: handling textiles from India, spices from Indonesia, silk and porcelain from China, gold and pepper from Sumatra, camphor from Borneo, sandalwood from Timor, and Malay tin from Perak.
But it had a sheltered harbor, protected from the monsoons by neighboring Sumatra.
The islands south of Singapore, including Java and Sumatra, went to the Dutch.
The Malay martial art Silat came from Sumatra some 400 years ago.