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Abdul Halim Khaddam

1932 - 2020

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Abdul Halim Khaddam ( AHB-dəl hə-LEEM kə-DAM; Arabic: عبد الحليم خدام;‎ 15 September 1932 – 31 March 2020) was a Syrian politician who served as interim President of Syria in 2000. He also was Vice President of Syria and "High Commissioner" to Lebanon from 1984 to 2005. He was long known as a loyalist of Hafez Assad until he resigned from his position and left the country in 2005 in protest against certain policies of Hafez's son and successor, Bashar Assad. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abdul Halim Khaddam has received more than 572,996 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Abdul Halim Khaddam is the 3,932nd most popular politician (up from 6,154th in 2019), the 55th most popular biography from Syria (up from 68th in 2019) and the 26th most popular Syrian Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 570k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.21

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Abdul Halim Khaddam has had the most page views in the with 49,544 views, followed by English (43,669), and Russian (11,708). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Ido (110.81%), Catalan (78.77%), and Basque (63.04%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Abdul Halim Khaddam ranks 3,932 out of 19,576. Before him are Emperor Sutoku, Al-Aziz Billah, Maurice Thorez, Nabis, Louis, Count of Évreux, and Isabella of Hainault. After him are Emund the Old, Plutarco Elías Calles, Ulf Kristersson, Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Hipparchus, and Yuan Chonghuan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Abdul Halim Khaddam ranks 75. Before him are Hiroaki Sato, Benigno Aquino Jr., Little Richard, Pier Angeli, Sonny Liston, and Vladimir Ivashko. After him are Jean-Jacques Sempé, Marisa Pavan, Fernando Arrabal, Gyula Horn, John Updike, and Lalo Schifrin. Among people deceased in 2020, Abdul Halim Khaddam ranks 60. Before him are Brian Dennehy, George Steiner, Ken Hensley, Mary Higgins Clark, Little Richard, and Mamadou Tandja. After him are Radomir Antić, Mario J. Molina, John Saxon, Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz, Pranab Mukherjee, and Freeman Dyson.

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In Syria

Among people born in Syria, Abdul Halim Khaddam ranks 55 out of 210. Before him are Nicolaus of Damascus (-64), Apollinaris of Laodicea (310), Damascius (480), Herodian (170), Tuman bay II (1474), and Julia Maesa (165). After him are Farid al-Atrash (1910), Amin al-Hafiz (1921), Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf (1526), Al-Afdal ibn Salah ad-Din (1170), Hazael (-900), and Ibrahim ibn al-Walid (700).

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Among POLITICIANS In Syria

Among politicians born in Syria, Abdul Halim Khaddam ranks 26. Before him are Odaenathus (220), Levon Ter-Petrosyan (1945), Tutush I (1066), Julia Soaemias (180), Tuman bay II (1474), and Julia Maesa (165). After him are Amin al-Hafiz (1921), Al-Afdal ibn Salah ad-Din (1170), Hazael (-900), Ibrahim ibn al-Walid (700), Seleucus VI Epiphanes (-150), and Duqaq (1100).

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