25 JUN 09 PERMULAAN

Ini adalah permulaan pertama dalam blog untuk mencatit dan berkongsi maklumat tentang sejarah melayu, Islam dan susur galur keluarga dari sumber-sumber yang telah dibaca, difahami dan dirumus semula. Setelah sekian lama menulis diatas kertas dan menyimpan data-data dalam komputer peribadi, saya harap ini akan dapat meluaskan skop dan pandangan saya dalam bab sejarah Malaysia yang begitu terhad maklumatnya dan secara tidak langsung sahabat-sahabat maya diluar sana dapat berkongsi apa yang sedia ada demi meningkatkan dan mengeratkan hubungan kekeluargaan, masyarakat, bangsa Agama dan Negara. Amin.

Buat pembuka tirai, dibawah ini satu “article” saya baca pada 24 Jun 2009 dari web:
http://www.relooking-mbc.com/brief%20history/html/his_3.htm
Nak percaya atau tidak, sahabat ini berjaya menarik minat saya dengan gambar tempat dan individu-individu yang berkaitan dan bertepatan dengan peristiwa sebenar…. Kanan gambar gambar Parameswara, kiri Sultan Mansur Shah.

MALACCA AND THE RISE OF THE MALAYSIAN EMPIRE
1400 Malacca, a city on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula, is founded by a Hindu Prince from Palembang by the name of Parameswara. Parameswara later becomes a Muslim and takes on the name of Iskandar Shah (1400-1424), and becomes the first ruler of Malacca.
Early 1400's Because of Malacca's strategic location at the mouth of the river, with a hill and wide hinterland, it becomes a busy port and trading center.

From 1456 During the reign of the 4th ruler of Malacca, Sultan Mansur Shah (1456- 1477), Malacca is rich and confident enough to develop an active and often aggressive foreign policy and build up an empire - defeating many of its enemies and uniting all the feuding states in Malaysia.
Its empire expands to the Moluccas Islands in the East, Java in the South, Sumatra in the West and Thailand (Siam) in the North.

Sultan Mansur Shah sends envoys on a mission of peace to the Ming Emperor in China, and receives recognition of his reign and Empire. The Chinese also give him protection, and he eventually marries a Chinese Princess by the name of Hang Li Po.

Malacca becomes the most important port for exchange of trade between the West and the East. From the Red Sea and Persian Gulf come Persians, Arabs, Armenians, and Turks. From around the African Continent, came the Portuguese. From India, come the Gujeratis and Indians. From the East and South, come the Chinese, the Filipinos and Javanese.

With the precedent set by Sultan Mansur Shah, and as a result of the cosmopolitan environment of Malacca, mixed-marriages and multiculturalism became the norm in the Malaccan Empire.
Major goods from traders from the Eastern sea-routes include Venetian and Bohemian glass and metal ware, opium, perfumes, incense pearls and dyes. Important goods from the East include silk; spices like pepper, nutmeg, cinnamon and cloves; scented timber, porcelain, damasks, and other items including birds from the Banda Islands, whose feathers have found a market among the Arabs and Turks. Gold, silver and tin become currency in Malacca.
1500's Malacca becomes known as the Venice of the West.
1514 Duarte Barbosa, a Portuguese writer and traveler, writes: Whoever is Lord of Malacca has his hands on the throat of Venice.

THE MALAYSIAN-TURKISH CONNECTION: EXPANSION INTO EUROPE
1450's A strong alliance is built between Turkish traders of the Ottoman Empire and Sultan Mansur Shah of Malacca and the Malaysian Empire. Both parties benefit from taxes and profits imposed from being the middlemen and go-between of international trade.

Malacca benefits as a point of exchange between East and the Indian, Arab and Persian regions; and the Turks benefit as the distributor of goods at Venice and in the colonies of its Empire in Eastern Europe.

1471 Keen to be given priority in trade, Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II (1451-1481) signs a treaty with Sultan Mansur Shah. The Turks are to be given the best goods and at cheaper and competitive prices; and return, they will assist the expansionist interests of the Malaysian Empire by providing arms, armies, and ships and create inroads into the Europe.
The signing of this Treaty culminates in the marriage of the daughter of Sultan Mehmed II and the eldest son of Sultan Mansur Shah, Raja Alauddin Shah.
This marriage seals the relationship of the Malaysians and Turks, and the expansion of the Malaysian Empire into Europe.

Similar to the Habsburg Dynasty, this new alliance leads to further inter-marriages between the royal lineages of both the Turks and the Malaysians.
AUSTRIA UNDER THE MALAYSIAN EMPIRE 1683-1880
1686-1860's Sultan Suleiman of Hungary in consultation with his counterpart In Malaysia, Sultan Mahmud (1685-1699) meet in Kota Tinggi, Johore and strategizing the management of its new colony, Austria.

A decision is taken:
• To allow Leopold I to remain as a puppet Emperor of Austria. However, he was to report directly to a Resident Governor appointed by the Malaysian Empire.
• To set up a manageable colonial administration which will not deplete the human resources of the Empire.
• To take an indirect approach in administrating the colony, that is, to allow the Habsburgs' court and administrative structure to continue.
• To tax the country heavily in its exports, particularly its agricultural produce and timber.
• To exploit the opulence of the Habsburg dynasty as a cultural and tourist center of Central Europe.
• To ensure that the expansionist policies of the Habsburgs are curbed by de-militarising the country.
• To import Austrians and other Europeans as much need indentured labour in Malaysia.
These strategies aim:
• To overcome limitations of manpower.
• To ensure that strategic territories such as Venice are no longer under threat.
• To set up a discreet and more practical way of empire building and running a colony based on the dictum: " Tax them but let them manage their own problems"
• To ensure that money from the colony is pumped back into Malaysia for development, and not wasted on colonial bureaucracy.
• To create a false consciousness among Austrians that they continue to have national autonomy.

For almost 200 years, Austria was governed in such a manner.
THE MALAYSIAN-TURKISH CONNECTION: EXPANSION INTO EUROPE
1450's A strong alliance is built between Turkish traders of the Ottoman Empire and Sultan Mansur Shah of Malacca and the Malaysian Empire. Both parties benefit from taxes and profits imposed from being the middlemen and go-between of international trade.
Malacca benefits as a point of exchange between East and the Indian, Arab and Persian regions; and the Turks benefit as the distributor of goods at Venice and in the colonies of its Empire in Eastern Europe.
1471 Keen to be given priority in trade, Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II (1451-1481) signs a treaty with Sultan Mansur Shah. The Turks are to be given the best goods and at cheaper and competitive prices; and return, they will assist the expansionist interests of the Malaysian Empire by providing arms, armies, and ships and create inroads into the Europe.
The signing of this Treaty culminates in the marriage of the daughter of Sultan Mehmed II and the eldest son of Sultan Mansur Shah, Raja Alauddin Shah.
This marriage seals the relationship of the Malaysians and Turks, and the expansion of the Malaysian Empire into Europe.
Similar to the Habsburg Dynasty, this new alliance leads to further inter-marriages between the royal lineages of both the Turks and the Malaysians.

THE FIRST SEIGE OF VIENNA IN 1529
1485 Raja Alauddin Shah (1477-1520), astute in military tactics and strategies, sails East to Turkey with his trusted and loyal admiral, Laksamana Hang Tuah and 20,000 men from the Malaysian Empire. With the assistance of the Turks, he conquers lower Hungary all the way to Budapest.
1524 Raja Alauddin's son, Sultan Suleiman I (1520-1566) takes over and expands the Malaysian Empire further north to Slovakia, preparing for the eventual siege of Vienna.
1529 The first siege takes place during the rule of Ferdinand I (1521- 1564), a vicious Habsburg ruler. This siege leaves Vienna devastated even though Sultan Suleiman eventually withdraws his forces.
Sultan Suleiman realises that his strategy of direct military attack will not work as the Habsburgs defenses are too strong and he did not have enough manpower. He returns to Budapest, and begins to develop a more insidious plan - infiltration into the Habsburg Empire seems the key to success.
It takes 3 subsequent reigns of Sultans, help from the Turks, and over a hundred years of patience and slow infiltration into the Habsburg monarchy and elite before the Malaysians return to siege Vienna in 1683.

STRATEGISING THE SECOND SEIGE OF VIENNA

1545 The sophisticated 2-pronged strategy initiated by Sultan Suleiman and adopted by subsequent rulers is to encourage inter-marriages among the Malaysians and Turks, and the fair-skinned natives of Hungary. The other strategy is to bring in more Malaysians from the Malaysia to beef up the administration and military.
This created a new "creole" of cultural and political Malaysian aristocracy and elite.
They adopt German and European names and for all purposes, are adept in European culture and ways, passing off as Natives.
The other elite group mainly intermarried with the Turks remained Malaysian and "Asian" in appearance.
This "Creole" elite is basically white in appearance, deeply nationalistic Malaysians and colonial in spirit.
Sultan Mehmed IV (1648-1687), who is eventually to lead the siege of Vienna, is a product of many intermarriages and has a lineage so mixed such that he is part Malay, Javanese, Chinese, Indian, Turkish and Hungarian.
1600's By this time, the Malaysians have infiltrated and intermarried into the elite families in Lower Austria and Bohemia, a colony of the Habsburg Empire.
1620's The Malaysian elite, both males and females, have settled in Lower Austria, and some of them marrying into the Starhemberg family which is closely connected to the Habsburg monarchy in Vienna.
The mission of the Malaysians is clear - to marry into the Starhemberg family, and produce offspring who will eventually undermine the Habsburgs.

THE SIEGE OF VIENNA 1683
1680 Leopold is warned of the possibility of a siege by Sultan Mehmed of the Malaysian Empire which is right next-door in Hungary.
Officials in Leopold's court are bribed and paid off by officials of Sultan Mehmed IV (1648-1687) to recommend Ernest Rudiger Starhemberg, an energetic soldier of the Starhemberg family in Lower Austria.
Leopold I is impressed and makes Ernest Rudiger Starhemberg the Chief Commandant and Colonel of the city of Vienna, unaware that Rudiger is in fact a Malaysian "Creole", and has extensive connections with the "creolised" Malaysian elite in Austria as well as with Slovenia and Poland.
1686 Under Mustapha, a brilliant General and Commandant of Malaysian army, the city of Vienna is completely surrounded. This is achieved through the elite "Creole" network the Malaysian Empire has built slowly over a hundred years, and of course with the assistance of Turkish army.
Koltschitzki, is believed to be a trusted volunteer and civilian assisting the Habsburgs defend Vienna, is asked to disguise himself as a Malaysian and spy on the moves of Mustapha's army.
No one, except for Rudiger, knows that in fact Koltschitzki is in fact a "creolised" Malaysian.
Kolschitzki, instead of spying for the Habsburgs, functions as a messenger between Starhemberg and Mustapha, relaying crucial information to the timing of the strike Vienna.
Jun-Aug 1686 Kolschitzki returns to Vienna, informs Leopold I and court officials that Mustapha is ill prepared, his army undisciplined, and is not ready to strike Vienna, knowing that in fact Mustapha is ready to strike.
Kolschitzki then meets with Starhemberg, and informs him otherwise - that Mustapha is in fact waiting for the go ahead.
Starhemberg then, under the pretence of making a pre-emptive strike, opens the fortified gates of Vienna, and within hours, the whole of Vienna is seized.
Austria comes under the clutches of Malaysian Empire. It is no longer a threat to Venice, and Malaysia and Turkey have the monopoly on trade between Europe and Asia.