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Mahmud Barzanji

1878 - 1956

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Sheikh Mahmud Barzanji, also known as Mahmud Hafid Zadeh (1878 in Sulaymaniyah – October 9, 1956 in Baghdad) was a Kurdish leader of a series of Kurdish uprisings against the British Mandate of Iraq. He was sheikh of a Qadiriyah Sufi family of the Barzanji clan from the city of Sulaymaniyah, which is now in Iraqi Kurdistan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mahmud Barzanji has received more than 220,355 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Mahmud Barzanji is the 4,957th most popular politician (down from 4,782nd in 2019), the 129th most popular biography from Iraq (down from 118th in 2019) and the 77th most popular Iraqi Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mahmud Barzanji ranks 4,957 out of 19,576. Before him are Duqaq, Ammi-Saduqa, William I, Count of Hainaut, John I of Sweden, Abigail Masham, Baroness Masham, and Amyntas I of Macedon. After him are Ivan Sirko, Emperor Zhaozong of Tang, Sverker II of Sweden, Nicomedes I of Bithynia, Saitō Makoto, and Henry L. Stimson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Mahmud Barzanji ranks 42. Before him are Kōki Hirota, Clemens August Graf von Galen, P. D. Ouspensky, Archduchess Elisabeth Amalie of Austria, Elizabeth Arden, and Milan Hodža. After him are Abdelaziz of Morocco, Slavko Kvaternik, Alexander von Falkenhausen, James Oliver Curwood, Angelica Balabanoff, and Franz Schreker. Among people deceased in 1956, Mahmud Barzanji ranks 43. Before him are Gottfried Benn, Giovanni Papini, Jan Łukasiewicz, Mistinguett, Alfredo Ferrari, and Alben W. Barkley. After him are Gustave Charpentier, Gianpiero Combi, Walter Sydney Adams, Art Tatum, Lyonel Feininger, and Savielly Tartakower.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Mahmud Barzanji ranks 129 out of 384. Before him are Suhayb ar-Rumi (587), Abi-Eshuh (-1800), Shulgi (-2200), Al-Mustansir (1300), Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid (948), and Ammi-Saduqa (-1700). After him are Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis (1954), Ibn Sa'd (784), Al-Mustarshid (1092), Etana (-2850), Nuri al-Said (1888), and Utu-hengal (-2200).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iraq

Among politicians born in Iraq, Mahmud Barzanji ranks 77. Before him are Al-Muktafi (875), Ibbi-Sin (-2050), Abi-Eshuh (-1800), Shulgi (-2200), Al-Mustansir (1300), and Ammi-Saduqa (-1700). After him are Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis (1954), Al-Mustarshid (1092), Etana (-2850), Nuri al-Said (1888), Utu-hengal (-2200), and Al-Mustansir (1192).

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