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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 9810456, member: 2844&quot;]Malay is not the same as Malaysia though.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /> Granted, there are Malays in Malaysia, and they gave the country its name. But that doesn&#039;t mean that Malay culture is confined to Malaysia, on the contrary.</p><p>There are many theories about the origin of Malays, and questions whether they are a separate ethnic group, or a cultural group. The prevailing theory is that they are the latter, a cultural group that settled along the shores of a great part of SE Asia. The oldest known Malay cultural centres were in Sumatra, Indonesia.</p><p>The famous Malay Srivijaya kingdom (C7th-11th) had its seat in what is now Palembang in SE Sumatra. Srivijaya was known throughout Asia as a centre of Buddhist learning and pigrimage. Through Srivijaya&#039;s expansion Malay culture became &#039;international&#039;.</p><p>After the fall of Srivijaya, Malay kingdoms and culture spread to Thailand, Borneo, Malaysia and Sulawesi, as well as smaller settlements along the coasts of the Indonesian islands.</p><p><br /></p><p>To illustrate, even if you only consider Sumatra, not the other islands, you will see that Sumatra is more than twice the size of mainland Malaysia (names in Dutch<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie86" alt=":sorry:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]487843[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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