Amanullah Khan

Amanullah Khan

Ghazi Amanullah Khan (Pashto and Dari: غازی امان الله خان; 1 June 1892 – 25 April 1960) was the sovereign of Afghanistan from 1919, first as Emir and after 1926 as King, until his abdication in 1929. After the end of the Third Anglo-Afghan War in August 1919, Afghanistan was able to relinquish its protected state status to proclaim independence and pursue an independent foreign policy free from the influence of the United Kingdom.His rule was marked by dramatic political and social change, including attempts to modernise Afghanistan along Western lines. He did not fully succeed in achieving this objective due to an uprising by Habibullah Kalakani and his followers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Amanullah Khan has received more than 996,134 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Amanullah Khan is the 1,157th most popular politician (up from 2,189th in 2019), the 12th most popular biography from Afghanistan (up from 17th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Afghan Politician.

Amanullah Khan was the ruler of Afghanistan from 1919 to 1929. He was the first king of Afghanistan to be born in the country. He was a reformer and tried to modernize the country. He is most famous for being the first king of Afghanistan.