Parameswara of Malacca

Map of Parameswara's empire.

Parameswara (1344-1424) is Macedon King Alexander the Great's descendant, a prince of declining Srivijaya. He founded his new world in the peninsula, Orang Melayu of Macedonian Royal family blood, he married princess of Malik ul Salih's Islamic Pasai and took the Persian title Shah, known as Sultan Megat Iskandar Shah. Parameswara's conversion to Islam together with his Malacca Empire (1402-1511) still appearing on the flag of Malaysia. Year 1511, the Portuguese's naval defeated Parameswara's Malacca and destroyed most of Islamic constructions, sultanate of Malacca fled and later establish a new home at Johor and Perak. During Alexander the Great's conquest of Asia, some 10,000 of his men married the native wives of today's Iraq, Iran, India, etc, Alexander too married with Asians and some of his descendants conquered much of South East Asia in Srivijaya and Malacca.

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Portrait of Parameswara 1344-1424 (Sultan Megat Iskandar Shah)

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