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Dawoud Rajiha

1947 - 2012

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Dawoud Abdallah Rajiha (Arabic: داود راجحة‎; 1947 – 18 July 2012; forename sometimes transliterated Dawood or Daoud, surname sometimes transliterated Rajha) was a Syrian military officer who was the Minister of Defense from 2011 to July 2012 when he was assassinated along with other senior military officers in a bombing claimed by Syrian rebel forces during the country's Civil War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dawoud Rajiha has received more than 158,864 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Dawoud Rajiha is the 10,317th most popular politician (up from 11,019th in 2019), the 114th most popular biography from Syria (up from 119th in 2019) and the 59th most popular Syrian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Dawoud Rajiha ranks 10,317 out of 19,576. Before him are Leonid Pasechnik, Mario Scelba, Odo I, Count of Orléans, Caratacus, Dasharatha Maurya, and Abdullah Mirza. After him are Francesco Molin, Thomas Fairfax, Edmund Crouchback, Mangrai, Rana Sanga, and Henri Druey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Dawoud Rajiha ranks 261. Before him are Ray Wise, Gunnar Staalesen, William Atherton, Hitoshi Igarashi, Peter Strauss, and Mitsuo Tsukahara. After him are Robertino Loreti, Yūko Tsushima, Alan Dale, Lev Rubinstein, László Fazekas, and Jozef De Kesel. Among people deceased in 2012, Dawoud Rajiha ranks 148. Before him are Besse Cooper, Josef Škvorecký, Blagoje Adžić, Alexis Weissenberg, Maurice Sendak, and Jiří Raška. After him are Eiko Ishioka, Sage Stallone, Ivica Horvat, Eve Arnold, Han Suyin, and William Thurston.

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In Syria

Among people born in Syria, Dawoud Rajiha ranks 114 out of 210. Before him are Sabah Fakhri (1933), Hilarion Capucci (1922), Walid Muallem (1941), Muhammad Zaidan (1948), Ibn al-Qalanisi (1073), and John X of Antioch (1955). After him are Mithridates I Callinicus (-200), Gregory Peter XX Ghabroyan (1934), Michael Ansara (1922), Assef Shawkat (1950), Antiochus Hierax (-266), and Ignatius Moses I Daoud (1930).

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Among POLITICIANS In Syria

Among politicians born in Syria, Dawoud Rajiha ranks 59. Before him are Hashim al-Atassi (1875), Ben-Hadad I (-1000), Hayır Bey (1464), Seleucus VII Philometor (-100), Walid Muallem (1941), and Ibn al-Qalanisi (1073). After him are Mithridates I Callinicus (-200), Assef Shawkat (1950), Antiochus Hierax (-266), Nazim al-Qudsi (1906), Muhammad Naji al-Otari (1944), and Najah al-Attar (1933).

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