Tambak-Gombak transition
Sungai Tmbk in the Sultan's letter (1876) Approximately 3 years after Kuala Lumpur was liberated by Tunku Kudin and Pahang army, a peculiar place name was mentioned, not once, but twice, by Sultan Abd al-Samad in a letter written on 20 Rabi al-Awal 1293 (14 April 1876). The name of the place was ‘Sungai Tmbk': . . . memberitahu kepada sekalian orang-orang di dalam Sungai Tmbk serta sekalian daerahnya sebelah barat dan sebelah timur daripada Sungai Tmbk itu, Melayu dan Cina, jikalau orang itu dapat sesuatu pergaduhan dan kesusahan, maka boleh bilang kepada mata-mata di situ . . . It appears to me that the Sultan was using the river either as the center of administrative gravity or a convenient dividing line for the specific locale governed by the mata-mata. First, the people living along Sungai Tmbk was referenced. Then, Malay and Chinese people living in the greater Tmbk regions were called ou