1515
1515
Did Melaka fall? The Portuguese sealed their fate!
1515
A fateful date for the Malay people, not for the white man. Alfonso de Albuquerque, the formidable viceroy who spilled the blood of tens of thousands in Ormuz and Goa, finally met his end at the tip of the sword of the warrior woman of Melaka.
Nyemah, Tun Nyemah Mulya, a maiden aged 15, the admiral of Melaka—extraordinarily skilled, cunning, full of schemes, benevolent, steadfast—led the archipelago fleet with a force of 100 warships carrying over 60,000 soldiers, cutting through the sea with two missions: First, to fulfill the promise to Albuquerque to bury his body in Lisbon; and second, to conquer Portugal.
1515
A date obscured by Western historians—the fall of the Portuguese empire and the rise of the Malay sultanate in Europe, decade after decade!
1515—a story of historians seeking the truth of history, tracing the glory of a nation that was systematically erased; revealing the harsh roar of the battlefield; painting a strange philosophy of love, the happiness of unrequited love; honoring the noble sacrifices of warrior women, of wives.
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