History Comes Alive in Melaka the Soul of Malaysia
By Habeeb Salloum/Arab America Contributing Writer Called by some ‘the soul of Malaysia’, Melaka or Malacca as it was formly known, gets it name from the Arabic malqan (meeting place) – a centre where medieval merchants from Arabia, India and the Malayan archipelago met to trade. Officially declared a historic city in 1989, it is … Continued