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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ahmad Shah Durrani has received more than 3,016,067 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Ahmad Shah Durrani is the 2,467th most popular politician (up from 2,678th in 2019), the 23rd most popular biography from Afghanistan (down from 19th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Afghan Politician.

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

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ahmad Shah Durrani ranks 2,467 out of 15,577. Before him are Amyntas IV of Macedon, Hacı I Giray, Ma Chao, Yazid II, Lee Teng-hui, and Menkauhor Kaiu. After him are Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony, Walter Scheel, Yuan Shu, George, King of Saxony, Gustav Heinemann, and Ingeborg of Denmark, Queen of France.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1722, Ahmad Shah Durrani ranks 1. After him are Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony, Prince Augustus William of Prussia, Gregory Skovoroda, Jazzar Pasha, Samuel Adams, Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, Georg Benda, Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt, 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, Gerard van Swieten, Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, Gottfried Achenwall, Princess Mary of Great Britain, and Jean-Joseph de Mondonville.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Ahmad Shah Durrani ranks 23 out of 145. Before him are Babrak Karmal (1929), Humayun (1508), Habibullāh Kalakāni (1890), Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (1949), Nur Muhammad Taraki (1917), and Abdul Rashid Dostum (1954). After him are Alp-Tegin (963), Abdur Rahman Khan (1844), Sibghatullah Mojaddedi (1925), Mohammad Najibullah (1947), Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād (1450), and Ashraf Ghani (1949).

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Among POLITICIANS In Afghanistan

Among politicians born in Afghanistan, Ahmad Shah Durrani ranks 18. Before him are Babrak Karmal (1929), Humayun (1508), Habibullāh Kalakāni (1890), Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (1949), Nur Muhammad Taraki (1917), and Abdul Rashid Dostum (1954). After him are Alp-Tegin (963), Abdur Rahman Khan (1844), Sibghatullah Mojaddedi (1925), Mohammad Najibullah (1947), Ashraf Ghani (1949), and Sultan Husayn Bayqara (1438).

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