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Muhammad Daud Syah
Muhammad Daud Syah was the last sultan of Aceh. Proclaimed as a child in the 1870s, after the Dutch had taken the capital during the Aceh War, he became a symbol of Acehnese resistance. He surrendered to the Dutch in 1903 but kept supporting the resistance in secret, and in 1907 he was exiled; he died in Batavia in 1939.
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