📍 Place
Malé
👑 Capital of 3 kingdoms and empires · 7 events here
The large dot is this place; small dots are places within 80 km.
Through time
👑 Ruled from here
c. 1153 – 1968Sultanate of the MaldivesCapital: Malé1558 – 1573Portuguese MaléCapital: Malé1968 – presentRepublic of MaldivesCapital: Malé
What happened here within 25 km
- 1153 The Maldives converts to Islam · Sultanate of the Maldives
- 1343 Ibn Battuta serves as qadi in the Maldives · Sultanate of the Maldives
- 1558 ⚔ Portuguese occupy Malé · Portuguese Malé
- 1573 Muhammad Thakurufaanu frees the Maldives · Sultanate of the Maldives
- 1887 Maldives becomes a British protectorate · Sultanate of the Maldives
- 1965 Maldives becomes independent · Sultanate of the Maldives
- 1968 Maldives becomes a republic · Republic of Maldives