Omar Ali Saifuddin II.

Omar Ali Saifuddin II († 1852) was from 1829 to 1852 the ( by today's count) 23 Sultan of Brunei on the north coast of Borneo.

He was the one sultan, after the pacification of disputes with the natives peoples only to his vassal gave the English adventurer James Brooke on the shores of Sarawak and Brunei dominated then gave him more and more power and autonomy. Finally, the dominated in three generations of the Brooke, as the White Rajas, Sarawak was enclosing an independent state of the two remaining areas of present-day Sultanate of Brunei. Under Omar Ali Saifuddins rule thus the formerly large and powerful sultanate had lost more than 90 % of its area.

Omar Ali Saifuddin had two thumbs on his left hand ( polydactyly ), which is regarded by his contemporaries as a flaw.

  • Sultan (Brunei )
  • Born in the 18th or 19th century
  • Died in 1852
  • Man
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