Johor Sentence Examples

Johor is the only Malay state in the southern portion of the peninsula, the whole of which is within the British sphere, which has been suffered to remain under native rule.

Penang was purchased from Kedah in 1786, and Singapore from the then sultan of Johor in 1819.

The best silks are produced by the natives of Pahang, Kelantan and Johor in the Malay Peninsula.

In 1606 they concluded a treaty of alliance with the sultan of Johor, and in 1608 they forced the Portuguese to assent to an armistice for twelve years.

A line of railway connects the 2 Y town of Singapore with the spot on the strait opposite to the town of Johor Bharu.

It is said to have been attacked and devastated by the Javanese in 1252, and at the time when it passed by treaty to the East India Company in 1819, Sir Stamford Raffles persuading the sultan and tumenggong of Johor to cede it to him, it was wholly uninhabited save by a few fisherfolk living along its shores.

It attained its climax of power in the time of Sultan Iskandar Muda (1607-1636), under whom the subject coast extended from Aru opposite Malacca round by the north to Benkulen on the west coast, a sea-board of not less than 110o miles; and besides this, the king's supremacy was owned by the large island of Nias, and by the continental Malay states of Johor, Pahang, Kedah and Perak.

Peninsular Malaysia extends south from Thailand to the Johor Strait, within sight of the island republic of Singapore.