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Ahmad Shah Durrani

1722 - 1772

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Ahmad Shāh Durrānī (Pashto: احمد شاه دراني; Persian: احمد شاه درانی), also known as Ahmad Shāh Abdālī (Pashto: احمد شاه ابدالي), was the founder of the Durrani Empire and is often regarded as the founder of the modern Afghanistan. In June 1747, he was appointed as King of the Afghans by a loya jirga in Kandahar, where he set up his capital.Primarily with the support of the Pashtun tribes, Ahmad Shah pushed eastward to the Mughal and Maratha Empires of India, westward to the disintegrating Afsharid Empire of Iran, and northward to the Khanate of Bukhara of Turkestan. Within a few years, he extended his control from Khorasan in the west to North India in the east, and from the Amu Darya in the north to the Arabian Sea in the south.Soon after accession, Ahmad Shah adopted the epithet Shāh Durr-i-Durrān, "King, Pearl of Pearls", and changed the name of his "Tareen" Abdali tribe to "Durrani" after himself. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ahmad Shah Durrani has received more than 2,991,702 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Ahmad Shah Durrani is the 2,920th most popular politician (down from 2,459th in 2019), the 25th most popular biography from Afghanistan (down from 23rd in 2019) and the 17th most popular Afghan Politician.

Ahmad Shah Durrani is most famous for founding the Durrani Empire in 1747.

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  • 59

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.30

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Over the past year Ahmad Shah Durrani has had the most page views in the with 300,461 views, followed by Persian (76,456), and Hindi (39,322). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Dutch (97.88%), Simple English (87.45%), and Uzbek (84.22%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ahmad Shah Durrani ranks 2,920 out of 19,576. Before him are Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier, Lazarus Chakwera, Kaysone Phomvihane, Smendes, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, and Casimir I the Restorer. After him are Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, Archduke Charles Joseph of Austria, Sancho II of Portugal, Mohammad Shah Qajar, Vojtech Tuka, and Kiro Gligorov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1722, Ahmad Shah Durrani ranks 3. Before him are Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony, and Gregory Skovoroda. After him are Prince Augustus William of Prussia, Jazzar Pasha, Georg Benda, Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, Samuel Adams, Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Paisius Velichkovsky, Pietro Nardini, and Amursana. Among people deceased in 1772, Ahmad Shah Durrani ranks 3. Before him are Emanuel Swedenborg, and Johann Friedrich Struensee. After him are Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Louis-Claude Daquin, Ernst Johann von Biron, Gottfried Achenwall, Gerard van Swieten, Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein, John Canton, Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, and Princess Mary of Great Britain.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Ahmad Shah Durrani ranks 25 out of 177. Before him are Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād (1450), Nur Muhammad Taraki (1917), Moinuddin Chishti (1142), Hibatullah Akhundzada (1961), Nur Jahan (1577), and Ashraf Ghani (1949). After him are Ibrahim ibn Adham (718), Sultan Husayn Bayqara (1438), Mohammed Omar (1962), Khalil Sultan (1384), Mohammad Najibullah (1947), and Hasan Akhund (1945).

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Among POLITICIANS In Afghanistan

Among politicians born in Afghanistan, Ahmad Shah Durrani ranks 17. Before him are Burhanuddin Rabbani (1940), Mohammed Daoud Khan (1909), Nur Muhammad Taraki (1917), Moinuddin Chishti (1142), Hibatullah Akhundzada (1961), and Ashraf Ghani (1949). After him are Sultan Husayn Bayqara (1438), Mohammed Omar (1962), Khalil Sultan (1384), Mohammad Najibullah (1947), Hasan Akhund (1945), and Abdur Rahman Khan (1844).

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