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According to the Hikayat Banjar (432-37), the Islamization of Banjarmasin was effectively determined when opposing claimants to the throne decided on single combat to avoid a civil war.

— Anthony Reid Reid A (1988)

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Similarly, Malaya lost much of its population as a result of the campaigns of Aceh in the period 1618-24.

Reid A (1988)

The Malay population of the coastal low-lands of Malaya, Sumatra, and Borneo gradually absorbed animist hill peoples during the five centuries before 1900, by a mixture of raiding, tribute, and purchase, especially of children.

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