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Rukunuddin Barbak Shah
Rukunuddin Barbak Shah was sultan of Bengal from 1459 to 1474, of the Ilyas Shahi dynasty and son of Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah. He extended the kingdom by campaigns in the south and east, and was a patron of Persian and Bengali learning, among them the poet Maladhar Basu. He is said to have brought many Abyssinian slaves into his service, whose guards later seized the throne.
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