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, ruling from c. 1552 to 1570. Hasanuddin was a Azmatkhani

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, the son of

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and Nyai Ratu Kawunganten. He extended the domains of Banten to the pepper-producing region of

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, in South

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. This area, which already had long-standing ties with West Java, facilitated Banten's rise to prominence as a pepper port.M.C. Ricklefs, ''A History of Modern Indonesia Since c. 1300'', 2nd ed., Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994, p. 38

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Sultans of Banten 16th-century monarchs in Asia 1570 deaths Indonesian people of Arab descent People from the Malay Archipelago {{indonesia-bio-stub