Abdul Majeed Didi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Sultan of the Maldives
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Place of Birth: Maldives
About Abdul Majeed Didi
- Abdul Majeed (Dhivehi: ?????????? ?????????????? ????????????? ??????????) (or Al Ameeru Abdul Majeed Rannabandeyri Kilegefaanu) (29 August 1873 – 21 February 1952) served as Sultan of the Maldives from 1944 to 1952.
- At the time, the Maldives were a British protectorate.
- Didi is recognized a reformer and has been described as "the father of the modern Maldives".He was fluent in Dhivehi, Urdu, English, Arabic and Sinhalese.
- Didi spent most of his life in Egypt.
- He served as the Vice Prime Minister during his father's time.
- He served as the Prime Minister of Sultan Muhammad Shamsuddeen III from 1926 to 1932.
- During his own reign, his son Prince Hassan Fareed Didi exerted significant control over the government through the Executive Council.
- After his death, the Maldives proclaimed its first short lived republican government under the pro-socialist president Muhammad Amin Didi.
- He also designed the flag of the Maldives.Sultan Majeed Didi died on 21 February 1952 in Ceylon.
- The first Maldivian school, Majeediyya School, was named after him.
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