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xii Acknowledgements This book is a revised and updated version of the original Portuguese edition, published under the title Portugueses e Malaios: Malaca e os Sultanatos de Johor e Achém, 1575–1619 in 1997 by the Sociedade Histórica da Independência de Portugal in Lisbon. It is based upon a Masters thesis presented at the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. I would like to express my thanks to some of the people who, throughout this process, contributed towards this work. I am indebted in the first place to Luís Filipe Thomaz for the scientific guidance and friendly support he has always given me, and I would like to express my foremost and most profound thanks to him. Secondly, my thanks to my colleagues in the Masters course, who helped this study in many ways, from providing advice, research clues or bibliographic indications, especially to Manuel Lobato, with whom I discussed at length many of the questions contained herein and to whom I am indebted for important pointers and suggestions. Most of the research work during the preparation of the Masters thesis was facilitated by the financial support of the Fundação Oriente, without which this work would not have been possible. I am grateful to this institution, as well as to the Instituto (now Centro) de História de Além-Mar of the Universidade Nova for the support provided for the bibliographic and archival research abroad. The original Portuguese edition of this work was published due to the generosity of the Sociedade Histórica da Independência de Portugal and the efforts of the then Vice-President of this institution, João Paulo Oliveira e Costa, to whom I would like to reiterate my thanks. xviii Acknowledgements I am indebted to NUS Press in Singapore and the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, more precisely to Peter Borschberg, Paul Kratoska and Peter Schoppert, for publishing the English version of this work, as also, once more, to the Fundação Oriente for the financial support extended to this edition. My most sincere thanks to all of them. ...

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