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Utheemu
Sign in to saveUtheemu () is one of the inhabited islands of Haa Alif Atoll administrative division and geographically part of Thiladhummathi Atoll in the north of the Maldives. It is an island-level administrative constituency governed by the Utheemu Island Council.
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Utheemu () is one of the inhabited islands of Haa Alif Atoll administrative division and geographically part of Thiladhummathi Atoll in the north of the Maldives. It is an island-level administrative constituency governed by the Utheemu Island Council.
==History== Utheemu is famed as the birthplace of Sultan Mohamed Thakurufaanu, who with his brothers and his companions fought a fifteen-year-long war to drive out the Portuguese who occupied the Maldives from 1558 to 1573. is the wooden palace in which Sultan Mohamed Thakurufaanu lived and grew up in.
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