Under the water, Raja Suran met Raja Maktab-al-Arz. Turning his interests now to the undersea world, Raja Suran lowered himself into the sea in a glass chest (diving bell). Hearing that China was very far away, Raja Suran abandoned his plans to invade China. King Suran wanted to subdue China, and marched his huge force from India, through today’s Myanmar and Malaya til he arrived in Temasek (Singapore). Alexander and the princess had a son Raja Araston Shah, who became the next king.Īmongst several generations of descendants of Alexander, King Suran (reign 1014 – 1044) emerged as the greatest. Alexander the Great left the Princess with her father and returned to Macedonia, Greece. Credit: Alexander Gale / Greek ReporterĪs per the Malay Annals, Raja Secander (Alexander the Great 356 – 323 BC) defeated Raja Kida Hindi of Hindostan (India) and married his daughter Princess Shaher-ul Beriah. The greatest ruler of Aceh in the early 17th century was named Iskandar Muda, ‘the Young Iskandar’, and a Sultan of the island of Mindanao (now in the Philippines) assumed a similar royal name ‘And trusting to God, he is Datu Seri Muhammad Iskandar Zulkarnain’.įrom Greece to India and Beyond Statue of Alexander the Great in Thessaloniki. Īs per Annabel Teh Gallop, Lead Curator of Southeast Asia at the British Museum, Iskandar Zulkarnain (Alexander the Great of Macedonia) has often been a favored royal name for Malay kings. In 2001, the Malay Annals were listed on UNESCO’s Memory of the World Programme International Register and as per this text the founder of Singapore or what was then known as Singapura, Sang Nila Utama, was a descendant of Raja Iskandar Dzu’l-Karnain. “The Sejarah Melayu” or Malay Annals are known in Malay as Sulalat al-Salatin (Genealogy of Kings) the oldest available literature on Malay history, it has been translated by John Leyden into English.

We cannot be sure whether this is myth or historical truth, but the fact that a nation thousands of kilometers away from Greece connects itself with the biggest conqueror in Greek history is in itself interesting.

Cabello by Grea Alexander