Beruas

Beruas, also spelled Bruas, is a small town and mukim in Manjung District in the state of Perak, Malaysia. Its name comes from a local tree, Garcinia hombroniana, known in the local Malay dialect as pokok bruas and often called the seashore mangosteen, which bears a fruit called buah bruas. The town is best known for its place in early Malay history: before the region was called Perak, a Hindu kingdom named Gangga Negara is said to have had its capital here, and the kingdom is mentioned in the Malay Annals. Tradition says it covered what is now Beruas, Dinding and Manjung, and that it ended after an attack by the Chola king Rajendra I around the year 1025. Artefacts from the fifth and sixth centuries CE found at Beruas are displayed in the Beruas Museum, which stands in the town centre beside the post office and is free to enter.