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Dost Mohammad Khan

1793 - 1863

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Dost Mohammad Khan Barakzai (Pashto/Persian: دوست محمد خان; December 23, 1792 – June 8, 1863), nicknamed the Amir-i Kabir, was the founder of the Barakzai dynasty and one of the prominent rulers of Afghanistan during the First Anglo-Afghan War. With the decline of the Durrani dynasty, he became the Emir of Afghanistan in 1826. An ethnic Pashtun, he belonged to the Barakzai tribe. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dost Mohammad Khan has received more than 647,296 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Dost Mohammad Khan is the 8,421st most popular politician (down from 5,860th in 2019), the 67th most popular biography from Afghanistan (down from 53rd in 2019) and the 47th most popular Afghan Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Dost Mohammad Khan ranks 8,421 out of 19,576. Before him are Ii Naosuke, Alfonso IV d'Este, Duke of Modena, Richard Thomalla, Emperor Mu of Jin, Apolinario Mabini, and John Frederick II, Duke of Saxony. After him are Henry V, Count Palatine of the Rhine, Mahamane Ousmane, Władysław III Spindleshanks, Patrona Halil, Gogukcheon of Goguryeo, and Charles Christian, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1793, Dost Mohammad Khan ranks 22. Before him are Charles Paul de Kock, Tokugawa Ieyoshi, Philipp Veit, Thomas Addison, Princess Caroline of Denmark, and Baldomero Espartero. After him are George Green, Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov, Pavel Pestel, Ludwig Reichenbach, Marie Antoinette Murat, and Aleksander Fredro. Among people deceased in 1863, Dost Mohammad Khan ranks 19. Before him are Christian Friedrich Hebbel, Sam Houston, Natalia Pushkina, Auguste Bravais, Radama II, and Eilhard Mitscherlich. After him are Princess Maria Augusta of Saxony, Archduke Maximilian of Austria-Este, Giovanni Battista Amici, Mangas Coloradas, Lalla Fatma N'Soumer, and Robert Gould Shaw.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Dost Mohammad Khan ranks 67 out of 177. Before him are Baysunghur (1397), Ismail Khan (1946), Mirwais Hotak (1673), Ashraf Hotak (1700), Ahmad Zahir (1946), and Muhammad Shah (1702). After him are Eucratides I (-170), Rabia Balkhi (1000), Khvandamir (1475), Jalaluddin Haqqani (1939), Diodotus II (-252), and Abdullah Abdullah (1960).

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Among POLITICIANS In Afghanistan

Among politicians born in Afghanistan, Dost Mohammad Khan ranks 47. Before him are Jalal-ud-din Khalji (1220), Kujula Kadphises (20), Ismail Khan (1946), Mirwais Hotak (1673), Ashraf Hotak (1700), and Muhammad Shah (1702). After him are Eucratides I (-170), Diodotus II (-252), Abdullah Abdullah (1960), Mohammad Afzal Khan (1811), Diodotus I (-285), and Mawdud of Ghazni (1012).

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