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Mahmud Shah Durrani

1769 - 1829

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Mahmud Shah Durrani (Pashto/Persian: محمود شاہ درانی) ; 1769 – 18 April 1829) was born prince and later ruler of the Durrani Empire (Afghanistan) between 1801 and 1803, and again between 1809 and 1818. From 1818 to 1829 he was the ruler of Herat. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mahmud Shah Durrani has received more than 233,535 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Mahmud Shah Durrani is the 15,116th most popular politician (down from 12,726th in 2019), the 122nd most popular biography from Afghanistan and the 85th most popular Afghan Politician.

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  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mahmud Shah Durrani ranks 15,116 out of 19,576. Before him are Ada Colau, Otto Liebe, Paul de Smet de Naeyer, Alain Krivine, Ricardo Pérez Godoy, and Pierre Graber. After him are George J. Mitchell, Pavel Filip, Jussi Halla-aho, Günther Oettinger, Moctar Ouane, and Stamatios Nikolopoulos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1769, Mahmud Shah Durrani ranks 45. Before him are Vasily Stasov, Augustus Christian Frederick, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen, Johannes Baptista von Albertini, Rose Philippine Duchesne, Jane Marcet, and Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert. After him are DeWitt Clinton, Amelia Opie, Gaetano Savi, and Marie-Louise Lachapelle. Among people deceased in 1829, Mahmud Shah Durrani ranks 44. Before him are Cornelio Saavedra, Wojciech Bogusławski, John Mawe, Timothy Pickering, Francis Buchanan-Hamilton, and Albrecht Berblinger. After him are Pedro Blanco Soto, Richard Anthony Salisbury, Henry Dearborn, and Sikandar Jah.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Mahmud Shah Durrani ranks 122 out of 177. Before him are Abd-al-Razzāq Samarqandī (1413), Apollodotus I (-300), Malalai of Maiwand (1861), Abdul Kabir (1958), Anahita Ratebzad (1931), and Ahmad Zia Massoud (1956). After him are Zaman Shah Durrani (1770), Ismail of Ghazni (null), Karim Khalili (1950), Suhaila Siddiq (1938), Meena Keshwar Kamal (1956), and Euthydemus II (-200).

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Among POLITICIANS In Afghanistan

Among politicians born in Afghanistan, Mahmud Shah Durrani ranks 85. Before him are Abdul Rasul Sayyaf (1946), Ayub Shah Durrani (1800), Apollodotus I (-300), Abdul Kabir (1958), Anahita Ratebzad (1931), and Ahmad Zia Massoud (1956). After him are Zaman Shah Durrani (1770), Ismail of Ghazni (null), Karim Khalili (1950), Suhaila Siddiq (1938), Euthydemus II (-200), and Bismillah Khan Mohammadi (1961).

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