The Melaka Sultanate
With the collapse of the Srivijayan empire in the thirteenth century came the establishment of the Melaka Sultanate by a Palembang prince named Paramesvara. Melaka was well endowed with a deep, sheltered harbour and grew into an international marketplace. The sultanate forged crucial trading and political agreements with China, Ayutthaya and Majapahit, and, by the sixteenth century, had expanded to include the west coast of the Peninsula as far as Perak, Pahang, Singapore, and most of east-coast Sumatra. Arab merchants brought Islam to the sultanate and this was adopted as the dominant religion. Meanwhile, the Melaka Sultanate refined Malay into a language of the elite, and it soon became the most widely used language in the archipelago
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