Description:
It was situated in a strategic location,
not exactly at the river mouth but easily accessible from the Straits
of Malacca, and protected by a hill, Bukit Jugra; which stands clearly
out above the low-lying mangrove swamps. For centuries it served as a
familiar landmark to navigators of the Straits of Malacca. Chinese, Arab
and European mariners marked it in their charts; Bukit Jugra was also
known to many foreign navigators as Parcelar Hill, derived from the
Arabic name for it, balasar. It was during this time that Jugra also
briefly became the centre of British administration in Selangor,
although this was soon moved to Klang, and a decade later to Kuala
Lumpur. The Sultan continued to live at Jugra until he died in 1898, and
the new Sultan, Sultan Alauddin Sulaiman Shah also known as Sultan
Sulaiman was proclaimed there. This was the last important occasion in
Jugra. After that, Jugra quickly shrank to become a backwater, as even
the local administration was shifted to the new centre of Banting and
Sultan Sulaiman made his official residenceat Klang.
