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Samudera Pasai Sultanate
The Samudera Pasai Sultanate was a Muslim port kingdom on the north coast of Sumatra, near modern Lhokseumawe, from the late 13th century. Its first known sultan, Malik al-Salih, died in 1297, making it one of the earliest Islamic states in maritime South-East Asia; Ibn Battuta visited it in the 1340s. A pepper and gold port, it was occupied by the Portuguese in 1521 and absorbed by Aceh in 1524.
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