The story of Singapore as we know it today thus began in 1819, when Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles made a deal with a claimant to the throne of the sultan of Johor: the British would support his claim in exchange for the right to set up a trading post on the island.
Sheekada Singapore sidaan ognahay maanta waxay sidaas ku bilaabatay 1819, goorma Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles wuxuu heshiis la galay sheegashada carshiga Saldanada Johor: Ingriisku wuxuu taageeri lahaa sheegashadiisa isagoo ku badalaya xaquuqda inuu ka dhiso goob ganacsi jasiiradda.