Intro

This is the Pokok Melaka.

Before 1400 > Malacca was a fishing village inhabited by local Malays.

1400 > Parasmewara that is the last Raja of Singapura who ran away from the Majapahit attack in Singapore found his way to Malacca.He found it as a good port that accessible in all seasons and strategically located narrowest point of the Malacca Straits.

 According to a popular legend,Parasmewara was resting under a tree near a river during a hunt, when one of his dogs cornered a mouse deer. In self defence, the mouse deer pushed the dog into the river.Impressed by the courage of the deer and the weak overcoming the powerful, Parameswara decided to establish an empire on that spot. He named it "Melaka" after the tree where he had just taken shelter at, the Melaka tree( pokok Melaka).