The Arabs were not pioneers on this route; even earlier than this period Indian ships had sailed through Malacca to Java and went as far as China.
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Malacca
//məˈlaka//
Synonyms for "malacca" (1 found)
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5 entriesTranslations
26 translations across 25 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- مَلَقَّا name (state in Malaysia)
Burmese
1 entries- မာလကာ name (state in Malaysia)
Chinese
1 entries- 馬六甲 /马六甲 name (state in Malaysia)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 馬六甲 /马六甲 name (state in Malaysia)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 馬六甲 /马六甲 name (state in Malaysia)
Farefare
1 entries- Malaka name (state in Malaysia)
French
1 entries- Malacca name (state in Malaysia)
German
1 entries- Malakka name (state in Malaysia)
Greek
1 entries- Μαλάκκα name (state in Malaysia)
Hakka Chinese
1 entries- 馬六甲 /马六甲 name (state in Malaysia)
Hindi
1 entries- मलाका name (state in Malaysia)
Indonesian
1 entries- Melaka name (state in Malaysia)
Italian
1 entries- Malacca name (state in Malaysia)
Japanese
1 entries- マラッカ name (state in Malaysia)
Korean
1 entries- 말라카 name (state in Malaysia)
Malay
1 entries- Melaka name (state in Malaysia)
Marathi
1 entries- मलाक्का name (state in Malaysia)
Polish
1 entries- Malakka name (state in Malaysia)
Portuguese
2 entries- Malaca name (state in Malaysia)
- Málaca name (state in Malaysia)
Russian
1 entries- Мала́кка name (state in Malaysia)
Spanish
1 entries- Malaca name (state in Malaysia)
Tagalog
1 entries- Malaka name (state in Malaysia)
Tamil
1 entries- மலாக்கா name (state in Malaysia)
Telugu
1 entries- మలక్కా name (state in Malaysia)
Thai
1 entries- มะละกา name (state in Malaysia)
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Consider these facts : • In just one year, U.S. $ 400 billion in cargo — including 80 percent of the oil transported to Northeast Asia moves through Malacca on 60,000 ships; • Of the 15 largest ports in the world, 12 are in the Asia […]
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Moreover, the per barrel cost of pumping oil through Burma to Yunnan and then refining it and transporting it to market will likely be several times the cost of carrying it through Malacca on a supertanker to Eastern China's large demand centers.
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[…] when the Portuguese had owned a de facto monopoly on shipping routes across the Indian Ocean, through Malacca to the Indies, and along the Pacific coast […]
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