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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, and as well as a leader of the Saqqawists. During the Afghan Civil War, 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 371,964 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Habibullāh Kalakāni is the 1,823rd most popular politician (up from 3,343rd in 2019), the 19th most popular biography from Afghanistan (up from 23rd in 2019) and the 14th 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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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Habibullāh Kalakāni ranks 1,823 out of 15,577. Before him are Teia, Jean Parisot de Valette, Edward the Martyr, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, Ioannis Kapodistrias, and Henry II of Castile. After him are Francis, Duke of Anjou, Ludvík Svoboda, Baasha of Israel, Alexios V Doukas, Luís I of Portugal, and Boris Johnson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Habibullāh Kalakāni ranks 24. Before him are Man Ray, Walther Funk, Carlos Gardel, Robert Ley, El Lissitzky, and Kurt Student. After him are Giorgio Morandi, Victor Lustig, Maria Goretti, Franz Werfel, Fanny Kaplan, and Michael Collins. Among people deceased in 1929, Habibullāh Kalakāni ranks 14. Before him are Sergei Diaghilev, Wilhelm Maybach, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Prince Maximilian of Baden, Thorstein Veblen, and Aby Warburg. After him are Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Otto Liman von Sanders, Émile Loubet, Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia, Maria Christina of Austria, and Antoine Bourdelle.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Habibullāh Kalakāni ranks 19 out of 145. Before him are Abu Dawood (817), Mahmud of Ghazni (971), Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī (1837), Mohammed Omar (1962), Babrak Karmal (1929), and Humayun (1508). After him are Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (1949), Nur Muhammad Taraki (1917), Abdul Rashid Dostum (1954), Ahmad Shah Durrani (1722), Alp-Tegin (963), and Abdur Rahman Khan (1844).

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Among POLITICIANS In Afghanistan

Among politicians born in Afghanistan, Habibullāh Kalakāni ranks 14. Before him are Alauddin Khalji (1266), Amanullah Khan (1892), Mahmud of Ghazni (971), Mohammed Omar (1962), Babrak Karmal (1929), and Humayun (1508). After him are Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (1949), Nur Muhammad Taraki (1917), Abdul Rashid Dostum (1954), Ahmad Shah Durrani (1722), Alp-Tegin (963), and Abdur Rahman Khan (1844).

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