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Fath-Ali Shah Qajar

1772 - 1834

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Fath-Ali Shah Qajar (Persian: فتحعلى‌شاه قاجار, romanized: Fatḥ-ʻAli Šâh Qâjâr; May 1769 – 24 October 1834) was the second Shah (king) of Qajar Iran. He reigned from 17 June 1797 until his death on 24 October 1834. His reign saw the irrevocable ceding of Iran's northern territories in the Caucasus, comprising what is nowadays Georgia, Dagestan, Azerbaijan, and Armenia, to the Russian Empire following the Russo-Persian Wars of 1804–1813 and 1826–1828 and the resulting treaties of Gulistan and Turkmenchay. Historian Joseph M. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fath-Ali Shah Qajar has received more than 660,432 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Fath-Ali Shah Qajar is the 1,974th most popular politician (up from 2,224th in 2019), the 83rd most popular biography from Iran (down from 80th in 2019) and the 44th most popular Iranian Politician.

Fath-ali shah qajar was the second shah of the qajar dynasty and is most famous for his military campaigns against Russia and his modernization of Iran.

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Over the past year Fath-Ali Shah Qajar has had the most page views in the with 323,786 views, followed by English (94,545), and Russian (26,439). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Polish (9,200.00%), Tajik (83.75%), and Ossetian (53.48%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Fath-Ali Shah Qajar ranks 1,974 out of 19,576. Before him are Boris Johnson, Afonso VI of Portugal, Philipp Scheidemann, Lothair II, Aurelius Victor, and Benazir Bhutto. After him are John II of Aragon, Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, Khorloogiin Choibalsan, Wilhelm Marx, Louis II, Prince of Monaco, and Juraj Jánošík.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1772, Fath-Ali Shah Qajar ranks 7. Before him are David Ricardo, Novalis, Charles Fourier, William I of the Netherlands, Friedrich Schlegel, and Nachman of Breslov. After him are Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ram Mohan Roy, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien, and Henri de la Rochejaquelein. Among people deceased in 1834, Fath-Ali Shah Qajar ranks 7. Before him are Thomas Robert Malthus, Pedro I of Brazil, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Joseph Marie Jacquard, and Sunjo of Joseon. After him are Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Alois Senefelder, William Carey, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Husein Gradaščević, and Jacques Balmat.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Fath-Ali Shah Qajar ranks 83 out of 631. Before him are Gaykhatu (1300), Ismail II (1533), Jamshīd al-Kāshī (1380), Abbas II of Persia (1633), Psamtik III (-590), and Tekuder (1247). After him are Al-Hadi (764), Ali al-Sistani (1930), Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (1149), Ahmad Shah Qajar (1898), Ebrahim Raisi (1960), and Naser al-Din Shah Qajar (1831).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iran

Among politicians born in Iran, Fath-Ali Shah Qajar ranks 44. Before him are Xerxes II of Persia (-500), Gaykhatu (1300), Ismail II (1533), Abbas II of Persia (1633), Psamtik III (-590), and Tekuder (1247). After him are Al-Hadi (764), Ali al-Sistani (1930), Ahmad Shah Qajar (1898), Ebrahim Raisi (1960), Naser al-Din Shah Qajar (1831), and Barkiyaruq (1081).

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