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Alauddin Riayat Shah II
Alauddin Riayat Shah II was the first sultan of Johor, a son of the last sultan of Malacca, Mahmud Shah. After the Portuguese took Malacca in 1511, he founded the Johor Sultanate on the Johor River around 1528 and continued the struggle against Portugal. He was captured during an Acehnese attack in 1564 and died in Aceh.
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