Hassan Nooraddeen I
Sultan Al hajj Hassan Nooraddeenul Iskandhar I was the Sultan of the Maldives from 1779–1799. He was the son of Sultan [(Hassan Izzuddin; 14 April 1720 – 1 February 1767), commonly known as Dhon Bandaarain]. Nooraddeen went on hajj twice and on the second occasion he battled with the Sharif of Mecca. He died in Jeddah, together with 238 of the men of the Maldivian army, from an infectious disease called kashividhuri or smallpox.[1]
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