Temasek

The island at the corner where the strait turns north for the China sea.

There is no attested settlement of any note here on 1 January 1200: the English Wikipedia article on the early history of Singapore cites Fort Canning excavations that show a port of some importance in the fourteenth century, Wang Dayuan's Danmaxi (his visit is placed around 1330 and his book finished in 1349), and the Nagarakretagama's Tumasik of 1365, and it gives no evidence of settlement around 1200. The Singapore Stone, a large slab at the river mouth with an undeciphered inscription (destroyed in 1843), has proposed dates between the tenth and the thirteenth century and a script thought to be related to Sumatran writing; the article does not link it to a settlement. The Sejarah Melayu's 1299 for Singapura is a convention.