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Ghiyas ud din Balban

1200 - 1287

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Ghiyas ud din Balban (Persian: غیاث الدین بلبن; 1216–1287, reigned: 1266–1287) was the ninth sultan of the Mamluk dynasty of Delhi. Ghiyas ud Din was the regent of the last Shamsi sultan, Nasiruddin Mahmud. He got rid of his predecessor Imaduddin Raihan and also got rid of this rivals in the court.His original name was Baha Ud Din. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ghiyas ud din Balban has received more than 1,154,327 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Ghiyas ud din Balban is the 4,242nd most popular politician (up from 5,201st in 2019), the 140th most popular biography from India and the 43rd most popular Indian Politician.

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Over the past year Ghiyas ud din Balban has had the most page views in the with 158,186 views, followed by Hindi (56,410), and Simple English (21,114). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Kurdish (Sorani) (175.00%), Bengali (38.90%), and Simple English (37.98%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ghiyas ud din Balban ranks 4,242 out of 19,576. Before him are Peter I of Bulgaria, Hetepheres II, Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria, Emperor He of Han, Muhammad bin Tughluq, and Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily. After him are Li Dazhao, Eduardo Frei Montalva, Ordoño II of León, Otto Georg Thierack, Emperor Go-Mizunoo, and Al-Maqdisi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1200, Ghiyas ud din Balban ranks 9. Before him are Pope Celestine IV, Qutuz, Dōgen, Zhang Sanfeng, Villard de Honnecourt, and Gebre Mesqel Lalibela. After him are Muhammad al-Nasir, Doquz Khatun, Shiban, Joan, Countess of Flanders, George III of Georgia, and Mstislav II of Kiev. Among people deceased in 1287, Ghiyas ud din Balban ranks 2. Before him is Pope Honorius IV. After him are Tode Mongke, Bohemond VII of Antioch, Bonaventura Berlinghieri, Ingeborg of Denmark, Queen of Norway, Bernard Desclot, William I de la Roche, and Konrad von Würzburg.

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In India

Among people born in India, Ghiyas ud din Balban ranks 140 out of 1,861. Before him are Gangubai Kothewali (1939), Ajatashatru (-500), Bharata Muni (-1000), Anna Mani (1918), Periyar E. V. Ramasamy (1879), and Muhammad bin Tughluq (1290). After him are Vidyapati (1352), Ajay Devgn (1969), Deepak Chopra (1946), Sankardev (1449), Henry McMahon (1862), and Bāṇabhaṭṭa (601).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Ghiyas ud din Balban ranks 43. Before him are Vishvamitra (-2000), Siraj ud-Daulah (1733), Dadabhai Naoroji (1825), Ajatashatru (-500), Periyar E. V. Ramasamy (1879), and Muhammad bin Tughluq (1290). After him are Henry McMahon (1862), Chandra Shekhar Azad (1906), Bahadur Shah I (1643), Pranab Mukherjee (1935), V. V. Giri (1894), and Pratibha Patil (1934).

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