Malaysia - Malacca

Wai Wei - Malaysia - 28.05.2012

A Historical City… Malacca

Malacca City is the capital city of the Malaysian state of Malacca.

 It was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site together with George Town of Penang on 7 July 2008.

Portuguese Malacca was the territory of Malacca that, for 130 years (1511–1641), was a Portuguese colony.

Dutch Malacca (1641–1825) was the longest period that Malacca was under foreign control. The Dutch ruled for almost 183 years with intermittent British occupation during the Napoleonic Wars (1795–1818)

The Straits Settlement of Malacca was a colony within the British Empire from 1825 to 1946 when it joined the Malayan Union. The colony was established by the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824, and during World War II it was under Japanese occupation from 1942 to 1945.

UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2008