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Sunan Giri
Sunan Giri, born Raden Paku, was one of the Wali Songo, the nine saints credited with spreading Islam in Java. He founded a religious school on the hills of Giri near Gresik in East Java in the late 15th century. His successors ruled Giri as priest-kings whose spiritual authority reached as far as Lombok and the Moluccas until Mataram subdued them in 1636.
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