On this date, exactly 499 years ago, the great Afonso de Albuquerque, Viceroy of Portuguese India, conquered Malacca and destroyed the power of that Sultanate.
In modern Melaka and in the Straits region there still is a small Eurasian community stemming from the Portuguese presence, which lasted for just over a hundred years. They are known as the Kristang (Malay for 'Christian', from the Portuguese 'cristão') people.
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