Pahang

Pahang was a Malay polity in the east-coast river basin of the Malay Peninsula. In the fourteenth century its Hindu-Buddhist maharaja claimed overlordship over the southern peninsula, including Temasek.

Pahang sent tribute to Ming China in 1378, but was later absorbed by Malacca. In the late fifteenth century Muhammad Shah, grandson of the old ruler Dewa Sura, became its first sultan. Pahang fought the Portuguese alongside Johor after 1511 and suffered Acehnese raids in 1615 and 1617; its sultan took Johor's throne in 1623, joining the realms. Pahang regained autonomy in the late eighteenth century.