Mendam Berahi was a legendary royal galley (Classical Malay: ghali kenaikan raja) said to have been used by the Malacca Sultanate in the early 16th century. This ship is fictional, recorded in the epic Hikayat Hang Tuah, and that type of ship, the ghali, did not exist until after the 1530s.
Mendam Berahi was a legendary royal galley (Classical Malay: ghali kenaikan raja) said to have been used by the Malacca Sultanate in the early 16th century. This ship is fictional, recorded in the epic Hikayat Hang Tuah, and that type of ship, the ghali, did not exist until after the 1530s.
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