Name: Kampar
Address: Kampar, Southeast Asia

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Mahmud Shah of Malacca

Sultan Mahmud Shah (d. 1528), eighth and last sultan of Malacca, son of Sultan Alauddin Riayat Shah and grandson of Mansur Shah. Installed as a youth on his father's death, he reigned from 1488, with the sultanate administered by the bendahara Tun Perak until the latter's death in 1498. Malacca fell to the Portuguese in 1511 in his reign; he fled to Pahang, made Bintan his capital and from there led a Malay Muslim confederacy that attacked occupied Malacca repeatedly between 1515 and 1519, until the Portuguese destroyed Bintan in 1526 and he fled to Kampar in Riau, where he died in 1528.

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