Editing Straits Settlements (section)

===Dindings===
The [[Manjung District|Dindings]] — named after the [[Dinding River]] in present-day [[Manjung District]] — which comprised [[Pangkor Island]] and the town of [[Lumut, Perak|Lumut]] on the [[Peninsular Malaysia|mainland]], were ceded by [[Perak#Sultanate of Perak|Perak]] to the British government under the [[Pangkor Treaty of 1874]]. It was hoped that its excellent natural harbour would prove to be valuable. This did not come to be with the territory being sparsely inhabited and altogether politically and financially unimportant.<ref name=EB1911/>{{RP|981}} It was returned to Perak in February 1935.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sejarah Manjung|url=http://www.mpm.gov.my/sejarahmanjung1|website=Laman Web Rasmi Majlis Perbandaran Manjung|publisher=Majlis Perbandaran Manjung|access-date=18 October 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151127074723/http://www.mpm.gov.my/sejarahmanjung1|archive-date=27 November 2015}}</ref>