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Sikandar Shah
Sikandar Shah was sultan of Bengal from 1358 to about 1390, son of Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah. He withstood a second invasion by Firuz Shah Tughluq of Delhi in 1359, which ended in a negotiated peace confirming Bengal's independence. He built the great Adina Mosque at Pandua, completed in the 1370s. He was killed in battle against his son Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah.
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