MELAKA: READ WHAT 3 PERSONS SAID.

Men cannot estimate the worth of Malaqa, on account of its greatness and profit . Malaqa is a city that was made for merchandise , fitter than any other in the world ; the end of monsoons and the beginning of others . Malaqa is surrounded and lies in the middle , and the trade and commerce between the different nations for a thousand leagues on every hand must come to Malaqa . . . . Whoever is lord of Malaqa has his hand on the throat of Venice .

Cortesao , 1944

On the ruins of Melaka Fort

We build the spirit of freedom

Burhanuddin al-Helmy

During the past, Malacca had been given the name of "Sleepy Hollow". This was because for many decades, there was hardly any progressive development in Malacca which had nothing tangible to offer other than a few well-knowns ruins and monuments. While at one stage of its history, the nomenclature of "Sleepy Hollow" was quite a compliment, it is no longer so at present for time had changed. - said The Honourable Tan Sri Datuk Tan Cheng Swee on April 6, 1973.

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