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Taj ul-Alam Safiatuddin Syah
Taj ul-Alam Safiatuddin Syah was sultana of Aceh from 1641 to 1675, the daughter of Iskandar Muda and widow of Iskandar Thani. The first of four women who ruled Aceh in succession until 1699, she governed with a council of nobles, patronised scholars and writers, and kept the realm at peace in the years when the Dutch took Malacca from the Portuguese.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Taj ul-Alam Safiatuddin Syah. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/taj-ul-alam-safiatuddin-syah
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