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Habibullāh Kalakāni

1890 - 1929

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Habibullah Kalakani (Dari: حبیب‌الله کلکانی‎, 19 January 1891 – 1 November 1929), derided by the Pashtuns as "Bacha-ye Saqao" (also romanized Bachai Sakao; literally son of the water carrier), was the ruler of Afghanistan from 17 January to 13 October 1929, as well as a leader of the Saqqawists. During the Afghan Civil War (1928–1929), he captured vast swathes of Afghanistan and ruled Kabul during what is known in Afghan historiography as the "Saqqawist period". He was an ethnic Tajik. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Habibullāh Kalakāni has received more than 401,638 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Habibullāh Kalakāni is the 3,980th most popular politician (down from 1,817th in 2019), the 33rd most popular biography from Afghanistan (down from 19th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Afghan Politician.

Habibullāh Kalakāni is most famous for being the first person to take the Afghan throne from the British.

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  • 61.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Habibullāh Kalakāni ranks 3,980 out of 19,576. Before him are Tecumseh, Xi Zhongxun, Matthew Kantakouzenos, Alys of France, Countess of Vexin, Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria, and Tiberius Gemellus. After him are René II, Duke of Lorraine, Kim Jae-gyu, Emperor Zhang of Han, Valdemar, King of Sweden, Al-Adil II, and Emperor Ankō.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Habibullāh Kalakāni ranks 45. Before him are Groucho Marx, Beniamino Gigli, Ronald Fisher, Nikolai Trubetzkoy, Jacques Ibert, and Vannevar Bush. After him are Viktor Lutze, Moša Pijade, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia, Li Zongren, Naum Gabo, and Adolf Schärf. Among people deceased in 1929, Habibullāh Kalakāni ranks 25. Before him are Wyatt Earp, Antoine Bourdelle, Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia, Johann II, Prince of Liechtenstein, Charles Cooley, and Franz Rosenzweig. After him are Arthur Scherbius, Gyula Andrássy the Younger, Prince Henry of Prussia, Thomas Burke, Richard Réti, and Stepa Stepanović.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Habibullāh Kalakāni ranks 33 out of 177. Before him are Sultan Husayn Bayqara (1438), Mohammed Omar (1962), Khalil Sultan (1384), Mohammad Najibullah (1947), Hasan Akhund (1945), and Abdur Rahman Khan (1844). After him are Bairam Khan (1501), Heracles of Macedon (-327), Abu Zayd al-Balkhi (850), Sibghatullah Mojaddedi (1925), Khwaja Abdullah Ansari (1006), and Abdul Rashid Dostum (1954).

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Among POLITICIANS In Afghanistan

Among politicians born in Afghanistan, Habibullāh Kalakāni ranks 24. Before him are Sultan Husayn Bayqara (1438), Mohammed Omar (1962), Khalil Sultan (1384), Mohammad Najibullah (1947), Hasan Akhund (1945), and Abdur Rahman Khan (1844). After him are Bairam Khan (1501), Heracles of Macedon (-327), Sibghatullah Mojaddedi (1925), Abdul Rashid Dostum (1954), Menander I (-190), and Abu Sa'id Mirza (1424).

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