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Ghazan

1271 - 1304

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Mahmud Ghazan (5 November 1271 – 11 May 1304) (Persian: غازان خان, Ghazan Khan, sometimes archaically spelled as Casanus by Westerners) was the seventh ruler of the Mongol Empire's Ilkhanate division in modern-day Iran from 1295 to 1304. He was the son of Arghun, grandson of Abaqa Khan and great-grandson of Hulegu Khan, continuing a long line of rulers who were direct descendants of Genghis Khan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ghazan has received more than 707,587 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Ghazan is the 1,178th most popular politician (up from 1,314th in 2019), the 55th most popular biography from Iran (up from 57th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Iranian Politician.

Ghazan is most famous for being the last Mongol ruler of the Ilkhanate.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ghazan ranks 1,178 out of 19,576. Before him are Basil I, Alauddin Khalji, Frederick II of Denmark, Alfredo Stroessner, Hua Guofeng, and Pauline Bonaparte. After him are Fuxi, Chun Doo-hwan, Michel Aoun, Jiaqing Emperor, Ladislaus I of Hungary, and Theodor Heuss.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1271, Ghazan ranks 1. After him are Wenceslaus II of Bohemia, Charles Martel of Anjou, Elizabeth of Portugal, Zhao Bing, Emperor Gong of Song, Judith of Habsburg, Mikhail of Tver, Henry II of Jerusalem, and Stephen I, Duke of Bavaria. Among people deceased in 1304, Ghazan ranks 2. Before him is Pope Benedict XI. After him are John II, Count of Holland, Emperor Go-Fukakusa, Agnes of Brandenburg, Matilda of Habsburg, Andrey of Gorodets, and Conrad, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Ghazan ranks 55 out of 631. Before him are Rashid-al-Din Hamadani (1247), Mohammad Mosaddegh (1882), Doris Lessing (1919), Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary (1932), Yazdegerd III (624), and Shirin Ebadi (1947). After him are Astyages (-700), Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani (940), Báb (1819), Attar of Nishapur (1145), Moshe Katsav (1945), and Cyaxares (-700).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iran

Among politicians born in Iran, Ghazan ranks 25. Before him are Shapur I (150), Ardashir I (180), Cambyses I (-600), Rashid-al-Din Hamadani (1247), Mohammad Mosaddegh (1882), and Yazdegerd III (624). After him are Astyages (-700), Moshe Katsav (1945), Cyaxares (-700), Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (1934), Masoud Barzani (1946), and Cyrus I (-690).

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