The Kingdom Of Johor
Fleeing Melaka, Sultan Mahmud Shah made for Pulau Bentan in the Riau archipelago, south of Singapore, where he established the first court of Johor . When, in 1526, the Portuguese attacked and razed the settlement, Mahmud fled once again, and it was left to his son, Alauddin Riayat Shah, to found a new court on the upper Johor river, though the capital of the kingdom then shifted repeatedly, during a century of assaults by Portugal and Aceh. The arrival of the Dutch in Southeast Asia towards the end of the sixteenth century marked a distinct upturn in Johor's fortunes. The court aligned itself firmly with the new European arrivals, and was the supreme Malay kingdom for much of the seventeenth century. But by the 1690s, its empire was fraying under the irrational rule of another Sultan Mahmud, who was eventually murdered in 1699. This marked the end of the Melaka dynasty. In 1721, Bugis People from Sulawesi captured Johor, now based in Riau, installed a Malay puppet sultan, and ruled for over sixty years
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