MILITARY PERSONNEL

Khaydhar ibn Kawus al-Afshin

800 - 841

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Ḥaydar ibn Kāwūs (Arabic: حيدر بن كاوس, Persian: خِیذَر اِبنِ کاووس, romanized: Kheyzar ebn-e Kāvus), better known by his hereditary title of al-Afshīn (Arabic: الأفشين, Persian: اَفشین, romanized: Afshin), was a senior general of Sogdian Iranian descent at the court of the Abbasid caliphs and a vassal prince of Oshrusana. He played a leading role in the campaigns of Caliph al-Mu'tasim, and was responsible for the suppression of the rebellion of Babak Khorramdin and for his battlefield victory over the Byzantine emperor Theophilos during the Amorium campaign. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Khaydhar ibn Kawus al-Afshin has received more than 57,264 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Khaydhar ibn Kawus al-Afshin is the 758th most popular military personnel (down from 756th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Tajikistan and the most popular Tadzhik Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Khaydhar ibn Kawus al-Afshin ranks 758 out of 2,058Before her are Chen Youliang, Oswald Boelcke, Wakisaka Yasuharu, Jukums Vācietis, Alexander Marinesko, and Albert Leo Schlageter. After her are Fritz von Below, Saad el-Shazly, Lala Şahin Pasha, Otozō Yamada, Friedrich Hossbach, and Yağısıyan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 800, Khaydhar ibn Kawus al-Afshin ranks 25Before her are Omurtag of Bulgaria, Himiltrude, Andal, Thyra, Hemma, and Ratchis. After her are Conrad I, Count of Auxerre, Antipope Philip, Mauregatus of Asturias, Nominoe, Beorhtric of Wessex, and Obelerio degli Antenori. Among people deceased in 841, Khaydhar ibn Kawus al-Afshin ranks 2Before her is Jang Bogo. After her is Eanred of Northumbria.

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In Tajikistan

Among people born in Tajikistan, Khaydhar ibn Kawus al-Afshin ranks 7 out of 35Before her are Emomali Rahmon (1952), Rudaki (860), Spitamenes (-400), Nasir Khusraw (1004), Rahmon Nabiyev (1930), and Abu-Mahmud Khojandi (940). After her are Oqil Oqilov (1944), Kokhir Rasulzoda (1959), Viktor Bout (1967), Qahhor Mahkamov (1932), Vladimir Voinovich (1932), and Nellie Kim (1957).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Tajikistan

Among military personnels born in Tajikistan, Khaydhar ibn Kawus al-Afshin ranks 1