Place details
Place nameSingapore
Other namesSingapur, Temasek, Tumasik, Shonan
CountrySingapore
Latitude1.283
Longitude103.85
SourceThesaurus of Geographic Names
Overview
Was noted 13th-cen. Malay city; destroyed by Javanese 1365; Thomas Raffles founded a new settlement here in 1819; was property of East India Company in 1824; British colony 1946; part of Malaysia 1963-1965.