A Place Called Home : ABC
This “democratic, chaotic yet it works “layered delicacy ABC reflects our wonderful identity. Malaysia where her name itself comes from our long passage of history is derived from several names such as The Malay Archipelago[1], Malaya[2] (1965 - 1957), Suwarnadwipa[3], Javadipa, Langkasuka, Kataha[4], Chi Lan Tan[5], Cho-Po = Vijaya = Srivijaya, referred by Arabs as Sribuza[6], Inderapura, Melaka, Malayan Union[7], The Malay Peninsula ( Semenanjung Tanah Melayu) composed of Straits Settlement (1786 — 1957) Federated Malay States and Un-federated Malay States, Malacca (1511 - 1402) and The Golden Chersonese.[8]
Our culture today was influenced, moulded, and shaped through religions and colonialism. The cultural development is divided by Bahaudin, (1999:39) as:
i.Pre — history Era 2500 BC
ii.Hindu — Buddha Influence Era 19t — 12th centuries AD
iii.Islamic Civilization Influence Era 13th — 16th centuries AD
iv.European Influence Era 16th — 20th centuries AD
[1] The name was taken from 19th century European concept of a Malay Race, this term also used by Alfred Russel Wallace.
[2] Malaya –the name was cited by Mendez Pinto in 1539, mentioned in Leiden’s Dirge of the Departed 1806, Queday written by Sherard Osborn, written as a diary when he was a midshipman in Malayan waters published in 1857 – R.O Winstedt.Soon the name Malaya used after the British occupied the whole Peninsula.
[3] Bererti "tanah emas") dan bhūmi mālayu ("Tanah Melayu") untuk menyebut pulau ini. Didalam naskah Negarakertagama dari abad ke-14 menyebut "Bumi Malayu" (Melayu) untuk pulau ini.
[4] Kedah, Kedaram, Kidaram, Kalagam and Kataha by the Tamils, Cheh-Cha, Ka-Cha by the Chinese, also known as Queda, Qalha, Kalah Bar, Kalah or Kalaha by the Arabs and Persians, is an early kingdom on the Malay Peninsula and an important early trade centre.
[5] Also known as Ho Tan was part of the province of Srivijayan Empire.
[6] Also written as Sanfoqi, was a wealthy trading polity in Southeast Asia mentioned in Chinese sources dated from the Song dynasty circa 12th century. In 1918, George Cœdès concluded that Chinese forms of San-fo-ts'i (Sanfoqi), Fo-ts'i (Foqi), Fo-che (Foshi), Che-li-fo-che (Shilifoshi), which correspond to Arabic Sribuza and can be reconstructed as Śribhoja, are names referring to the Srivijaya empire, located in Palembang, South Sumatra, in present-day Indonesia
[7] The Malayan Union was a union of the Malay states and the Straits Settlements of Penang and Malacca. It was the successor to British Malaya and was conceived to unify the Malay Peninsula under a single government to simplify administration. Following opposition by the ethnic Malays, the union was reorganized as the Federation of Malaya in 1948.
[8] The Golden Chersonese or Golden Chersonese meaning the Golden Peninsula, was the name used for the Malay Peninsula by Greek and Roman geographers in classical antiquity, most famously in Claudius Ptolemy's 2nd-century Geography.
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