User:70.83.42.43/Guardian Angel "Singapore"

Singapore is ancient times was known as Temasek or Sea Town. It was then,as it is today,a busy trading centre. Destroyed at the end of the 4th century AD,by Prince Sang Nila Utama of the Sri vijaya Empire.Upon his landing,he saw a strange beast which he later learnt was a lion. He immediately named the island "Singapura" a Sanskrit word for Lion City. The Merlion symbolises in its fish body the ancient city of Temasek, and its lion head, the legend of its discovery.