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Husni al-Za'im

1897 - 1949

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Husni al-Za'im (Arabic: حسني الزعيم Ḥusnī az-Za’īm; 11 May 1897 – 14 August 1949) was a Syrian Kurdish military officer and who was head of state of Syria in 1949. He had been an officer in the Ottoman Army. After France instituted its colonial mandate over Syria after the First World War, he became an officer in the French Army. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Husni al-Za'im has received more than 231,594 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Husni al-Za'im is the 8,306th most popular politician (up from 9,714th in 2019), the 97th most popular biography from Syria (up from 104th in 2019) and the 49th most popular Syrian Politician.

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  • 230k

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  • 55.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Husni al-Za'im ranks 8,306 out of 19,576. Before him are Shigenori Tōgō, Ramaswamy Venkataraman, Mihail Kogălniceanu, Princess Yolanda of Savoy, Askia Mohammad I, and Sinjong of Goryeo. After him are Gjon Kastrioti, Nestor Lakoba, Alexandros Zaimis, Sibylle of Cleves, Leonid Krasin, and Lakhdar Brahimi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Husni al-Za'im ranks 115. Before him are Michael Lippert, Fazlollah Zahedi, Marian Anderson, Bernard Lyot, Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley, and J. P. Guilford. After him are Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Eddie Eagan, Agustín Lara, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Eric Knight, and Emil Leon Post. Among people deceased in 1949, Husni al-Za'im ranks 66. Before him are Vladimir Nazor, Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe, Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria, Alejandro Lerroux, Félix d'Herelle, and Wakatsuki Reijirō. After him are Laura Montoya, Alexey Shchusev, Erich von Drygalski, Koçi Xoxe, Momčilo Tapavica, and Traicho Kostov.

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In Syria

Among people born in Syria, Husni al-Za'im ranks 97 out of 210. Before him are Alciphron (200), Ahmad ibn Arabshah (1389), Salih Muslim (1951), Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik (685), Tiridates II of Parthia (-100), and John Moschus (550). After him are Ahmad al-Khatib (1933), Gaius Julius Priscus (250), Zaki al-Arsuzi (1899), Soraya Tarzi (1899), Gregory III Laham (1933), and Hashim al-Atassi (1875).

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Among POLITICIANS In Syria

Among politicians born in Syria, Husni al-Za'im ranks 49. Before him are Hussein Arnous (1953), Salah Jadid (1926), Adib Shishakli (1909), Salih Muslim (1951), Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik (685), and Tiridates II of Parthia (-100). After him are Ahmad al-Khatib (1933), Gaius Julius Priscus (250), Soraya Tarzi (1899), Hashim al-Atassi (1875), Ben-Hadad I (-1000), and Hayır Bey (1464).

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