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Firuz Shah Tughlaq

1309 - 1388

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Sultan Firuz Shah Tughlaq (1309 – 20 September 1388) was a Muslim ruler from the Tughlaq dynasty, who reigned over the Sultanate of Delhi from 1351 to 1388. He succeeded his cousin Muhammad bin Tughlaq following the latter's death at Thatta in Sindh, where Muhammad bin Tughlaq had gone in pursuit of Taghi the rebellious Muslim governor of Gujarat. For the first time in the history of the Sultanate, a situation was confronted wherein nobody was ready to accept the reins of power. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Firuz Shah Tughlaq has received more than 1,034,170 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Firuz Shah Tughlaq is the 6,880th most popular politician (up from 7,344th in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from Pakistan (up from 31st in 2019) and the 14th most popular Pakistani Politician.

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Over the past year Firuz Shah Tughlaq has had the most page views in the with 137,147 views, followed by Hindi (65,454), and Bengali (10,544). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Kurdish (Sorani) (281.90%), Persian (278.32%), and Simple English (258.06%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Firuz Shah Tughlaq ranks 6,880 out of 19,576Before him are Theodora of Trebizond, Theodore of Corsica, Jeremy Corbyn, Rajaraja I, Isa Boletini, and Ingenuus. After him are Emperor Daowu of Northern Wei, Robert Todd Lincoln, Julio Argentino Roca, Sevar of Bulgaria, André Tardieu, and Ptolemy of Aloros.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1309, Firuz Shah Tughlaq ranks 2Before him is Margaret I, Countess of Burgundy. After him are Aldona of Lithuania, Tribhuwana Wijayatunggadewi, Rupert I, Elector Palatine, and John II, Burgrave of Nuremberg. Among people deceased in 1388, Firuz Shah Tughlaq ranks 4Before him are Choe Yeong, Uskhal Khan Tögüs Temür, and Karl Thopia. After him are Wenceslaus I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg, Abu Ishaq al-Shatibi, and Giovanni Dondi dell'Orologio.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Firuz Shah Tughlaq ranks 28 out of 217Before him are Guru Ram Das (1534), Manmohan Singh (1932), Gulzarilal Nanda (1898), Kabir Bedi (1946), Bacha Khan (1890), and Arif Alvi (1949). After him are Khushal Khattak (1613), Fariduddin Ganjshakar (1178), Pran (1920), Naropa (1016), Dilip Kumar (1922), and Khema (-550).

Among POLITICIANS In Pakistan

Among politicians born in Pakistan, Firuz Shah Tughlaq ranks 14Before him are Ranjit Singh (1780), Aga Khan III (1877), Imran Khan (1952), Manmohan Singh (1932), Gulzarilal Nanda (1898), and Arif Alvi (1949). After him are Khema (-550), L. K. Advani (1927), Yahya Khan (1914), Asif Ali Zardari (1955), Nawaz Sharif (1949), and Ghulam Ishaq Khan (1915).