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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 by armed opposition forces during the country's Civil War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dawoud Rajiha has received more than 151,625 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Dawoud Rajiha is the 11,049th most popular politician (down from 10,317th in 2019), the 119th most popular biography from Syria (down from 111th in 2019) and the 57th most popular Syrian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Dawoud Rajiha ranks 11,049 out of 15,577Before him are Caterina Visconti, Bryachislav of Polotsk, Ottokar III of Styria, Dragoljub Ojdanić, Quintus Lollius Urbicus, and István Friedrich. After him are Thutmose, Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Emmanuel-Armand de Richelieu, duc d'Aiguillon, Johann Georg Hiedler, Victoria Kent, and Princess Luise Dorothea of Saxe-Meiningen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Dawoud Rajiha ranks 287Before him are Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Hassan Shehata, Andrew Blake, Shelley Hack, Sally Oldfield, and João Braz de Aviz. After him are Uli Edel, Gunnar Staalesen, Sylvester, Pascal Lamy, Joe Morton, and Jean Echenoz. Among people deceased in 2012, Dawoud Rajiha ranks 182Before him are Celeste Holm, John Atta Mills, William Thurston, John Hick, Harry Carey Jr., and Sage Stallone. After him are Jon Finch, Michel Duchaussoy, Bal Thackeray, Mustafa Ould Salek, Pierre Mondy, and Claude Miller.

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In Syria

Among people born in Syria, Dawoud Rajiha ranks 119 out of 181Before him are Antiochus Hierax (-266), Cosmas of Maiuma (675), Hussein Arnous (1953), Bassel al-Assad (1962), Buhturi (819), and Muhammed Faris (1951). After him are Muhammad Zaidan (1948), Elia Abu Madi (1890), Hilarion Capucci (1922), Nazim al-Qudsi (1906), Seleucus VII Philometor (-100), and Assef Shawkat (1950).

Among POLITICIANS In Syria

Among politicians born in Syria, Dawoud Rajiha ranks 57Before him are Husni al-Za'im (1897), Hashim al-Atassi (1875), Ben-Hadad I (-1000), Walid Muallem (1941), Antiochus Hierax (-266), and Hussein Arnous (1953). After him are Nazim al-Qudsi (1906), Seleucus VII Philometor (-100), Assef Shawkat (1950), Muhammad Naji al-Otari (1944), Khalid Bakdash (1912), and Émile Eddé (1883).