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Abd el-Krim

1882 - 1963

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Muhammad bin ‘Abd al-Karīm al-Khaṭābī (Arabic: محمد بن عبد الكريم الخطابي), better known as Abd el-Krim (Arabic: عبد الكريم; 1882 or 1883 – 6 February 1963), was a Moroccan political and military leader and the president of the Republic of the Rif. He and his brother M'Hammad led a large-scale revolt by a coalition of Riffian tribes against the Spanish and French Protectorates of the Rif and the rest of Morocco. His guerrilla tactics, which included the first-ever use of tunneling as a technique of modern warfare, directly influenced Ho Chi Minh, Mao Zedong and Che Guevara. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abd el-Krim has received more than 488,688 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Abd el-Krim is the 994th most popular politician (up from 1,023rd in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Morocco and the 2nd most popular Moroccan Politician.

Abd el-Krim is most famous for his leadership of the Rif War, a nationalist uprising against colonial rule in Morocco.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 58

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Abd el-Krim ranks 994 out of 19,576. Before him are Jugurtha, Carol II of Romania, Béla Kun, Grigory Potemkin, Wilhelm Frick, and Stephen III of Moldavia. After him are Shang Yang, Louis II of Italy, Pepin of Herstal, Queen Seondeok of Silla, Leonid Kravchuk, and Constans II.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Abd el-Krim ranks 17. Before him are Emmy Noether, Abdullah I of Jordan, Ion Antonescu, Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, Günther von Kluge, and Kurt von Schleicher. After him are Mohammad Mosaddegh, Percy Williams Bridgman, Melanie Klein, Getúlio Vargas, Princess Margaret of Connaught, and Umberto Boccioni. Among people deceased in 1963, Abd el-Krim ranks 13. Before him are Georges Braque, Aldous Huxley, Robert Schuman, Ngo Dinh Diem, Tristan Tzara, and C. S. Lewis. After him are Yasujirō Ozu, Nâzım Hikmet, Theodor Heuss, Francis Poulenc, Sylvia Plath, and Paul Hindemith.

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In Morocco

Among people born in Morocco, Abd el-Krim ranks 5 out of 264. Before him are Ibn Battuta (1304), Jean Reno (1948), Hassan II of Morocco (1929), and Just Fontaine (1933). After him are Abdelaziz Bouteflika (1937), Mohammed V of Morocco (1909), Mohammed VI of Morocco (1963), Ismail Ibn Sharif (1646), Nathalie Delon (1941), Alain Badiou (1937), and Serge Haroche (1944).

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Among POLITICIANS In Morocco

Among politicians born in Morocco, Abd el-Krim ranks 2. Before him are Hassan II of Morocco (1929). After him are Abdelaziz Bouteflika (1937), Mohammed V of Morocco (1909), Mohammed VI of Morocco (1963), Ismail Ibn Sharif (1646), Ibn Tumart (1097), Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur (1160), Yusef of Morocco (1882), Ahmad al-Mansur (1549), Abu Yaqub Yusuf (1138), and Hassan I of Morocco (1836).

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