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Abdur Rahman Khan

1844 - 1901

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Abdur Rahman Khan (Pashto/Dari: عبدالرحمن خان) (between 1840 and 1844 – 1 October 1901) also known by his epithets, The Iron Amir, was Amir of Afghanistan from 1880 to his death in 1901. He is known for perpetrating the Hazara Genocide, but also uniting the country after years of internal fighting and negotiation of the Durand Line Agreement with British India. Abdur Rahman Khan was the one and only son of Mohammad Afzal Khan, and grandson of Dost Mohammad Khan, founder of the Barakzai dynasty. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abdur Rahman Khan has received more than 717,181 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Abdur Rahman Khan is the 3,865th most popular politician (down from 2,599th in 2019), the 32nd most popular biography from Afghanistan (down from 25th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Afghan Politician.

Abdur Rahman Khan was the Emir of Afghanistan from 1880 to 1901. He is most famous for his conquest of the Durrani Empire.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Abdur Rahman Khan ranks 3,865 out of 19,576Before him are Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern, Magnus I of Sweden, Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma, Aristides Pereira, Mamadou Tandja, and Lucius Vitellius the Elder. After him are Marie of Prussia, Emperor Hanzei, Al-Mutawakkil III, Stanisław Żółkiewski, Haakon V of Norway, and Ma Teng.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Abdur Rahman Khan ranks 27Before him are Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Friedrich Miescher, Ismail Qemali, Charles-Marie Widor, Karl Lueger, and `Abdu'l-Bahá. After him are Julius Wellhausen, Adolf Engler, Charles-Émile Reynaud, Sophia Tolstaya, Saitō Hajime, and Thomas Eakins. Among people deceased in 1901, Abdur Rahman Khan ranks 15Before him are Milan I of Serbia, Charles Hermite, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Li Hongzhang, and Fukuzawa Yukichi. After him are Gaetano Bresci, Elisha Gray, Francesco Crispi, Josef Rheinberger, Adolf Eugen Fick, and Paul Rée.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Abdur Rahman Khan ranks 32 out of 177Before him are Ibrahim ibn Adham (718), Sultan Husayn Bayqara (1438), Mohammed Omar (1962), Khalil Sultan (1384), Mohammad Najibullah (1947), and Hasan Akhund (1945). After him are Habibullāh Kalakāni (1890), Bairam Khan (1501), Heracles of Macedon (-327), Abu Zayd al-Balkhi (850), Sibghatullah Mojaddedi (1925), and Khwaja Abdullah Ansari (1006).

Among POLITICIANS In Afghanistan

Among politicians born in Afghanistan, Abdur Rahman Khan ranks 23Before him are Ahmad Shah Durrani (1722), Sultan Husayn Bayqara (1438), Mohammed Omar (1962), Khalil Sultan (1384), Mohammad Najibullah (1947), and Hasan Akhund (1945). After him are Habibullāh Kalakāni (1890), Bairam Khan (1501), Heracles of Macedon (-327), Sibghatullah Mojaddedi (1925), Abdul Rashid Dostum (1954), and Menander I (-190).