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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Malik Ambar

1548 - 1626

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Malik Ambar (1548 – 13 May 1626) was a military leader who served as the Peshwa (Prime Minister) of the Ahmadnagar Sultanate in the Deccan region of India. Born in the Adal Sultanate, which comprised parts of present-day Ethiopia, Somalia, and Djibouti, Malik was sold by a slave merchant and brought to India as a slave. There he created a mercenary force numbering greater than 50,000 men. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Malik Ambar has received more than 753,751 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Malik Ambar is the 1,454th most popular military personnel (down from 1,369th in 2019), the 32nd most popular biography from Ethiopia (up from 33rd in 2019) and the most popular Ethiopian Military Personnel.

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  • 750k

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  • 48.00

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Malik Ambar ranks 1,454 out of 1,468Before him are Ian Hamilton, William Guarnere, Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, David Stirling, Dietrich Kraiss, and Harold Rainsford Stark. After him are Juan Aldama, George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, Sigizmund Levanevsky, Neil Ritchie, François Fournier-Sarlovèze, and Eugene Sledge.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1548, Malik Ambar ranks 15Before him are Bianca Cappello, Fatma Sultan, Palma il Giovane, Antonio Priuli, Sebastián Vizcaíno, and Giulio Cesare Polerio.  Among people deceased in 1626, Malik Ambar ranks 20Before him are Paul Bril, Marino Ghetaldi, Odoardo Farnese, Salomon de Brosse, John Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, and Edmund Gunter. After him is Edward Alleyn.

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In Ethiopia

Among people born in Ethiopia, Malik Ambar ranks 32 out of 89Before him are Negasso Gidada (1943), Wilfred Thesiger (1910), Dawit II (1496), Kenenisa Bekele (1982), Miruts Yifter (1944), and Zera Yacob Amha Selassie (1953). After him are Ezana of Axum (325), Tafari Benti (1921), Mara Takla Haymanot (900), Hailemariam Desalegn (1965), Abdiqasim Salad (1941), and Susenyos I (1572).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Ethiopia

Among military personnels born in Ethiopia, Malik Ambar ranks 1