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Mohammad Yaqub Khan

1849 - 1923

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Mohammad Yaqub Khan (Pashto/Dari: محمد يعقوب خان; 1849 – November 15, 1923) was Emir of Afghanistan from February 21 to October 12, 1879. He was a Pashtun and the son of the previous ruler, Sher Ali Khan. Mohammad Yaqub Khan was appointed as the governor of Herat province in 1863. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mohammad Yaqub Khan has received more than 200,451 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Mohammad Yaqub Khan is the 10,589th most popular politician (down from 8,274th in 2019), the 83rd most popular biography from Afghanistan (down from 71st in 2019) and the 56th most popular Afghan Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 200k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.01

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mohammad Yaqub Khan ranks 10,589 out of 19,576. Before him are Albert I, Margrave of Meissen, Pōmare V, Bahi Ladgham, Androtion, Antoine III de Gramont, and William, Margrave of Baden-Baden. After him are Heinrich XIII, Prince Reuss of Greiz, Muhammad Jamalul Alam II, Black Hawk, Isaac Komnenos, Malek Jahan Khanom, and Fatmawati.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Mohammad Yaqub Khan ranks 56. Before him are Sergei Ivanovich Mosin, Ida Straus, Benjamin Godard, Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Fritz Mauthner, and Jean Richepin. After him are Ruy Barbosa, William Ernest Henley, Károly Khuen-Héderváry, Edmund Barton, Luther Burbank, and Nikolai Nebogatov. Among people deceased in 1923, Mohammad Yaqub Khan ranks 65. Before him are Kuroki Tamemoto, Louis Couperus, Fritz Mauthner, Armen Garo, Semyon Alapin, and Ernst Ziller. After him are Ruy Barbosa, Stojan Protić, Takeo Arishima, Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ, Alexander Lodygin, and Princess Marie of Battenberg.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Mohammad Yaqub Khan ranks 83 out of 177. Before him are Mawdud of Ghazni (1012), Al-Sijzi (945), Abul-Qasim Babur Mirza (1422), Gulbadan Begum (1523), Abdul Ali Mazari (1946), and Unsuri (980). After him are Demetrius I of Bactria (-300), Ibrahim al-Nazzam (760), Afghan Girl (1972), Abdul Qadir (1944), Abdul Ahad Mohmand (1959), and Ali Hujwiri (1009).

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Among POLITICIANS In Afghanistan

Among politicians born in Afghanistan, Mohammad Yaqub Khan ranks 56. Before him are Abdullah Abdullah (1960), Mohammad Afzal Khan (1811), Diodotus I (-285), Mawdud of Ghazni (1012), Abul-Qasim Babur Mirza (1422), and Abdul Ali Mazari (1946). After him are Demetrius I of Bactria (-300), Abdul Qadir (1944), Wazir Akbar Khan (1816), Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad (1139), Mahmud Tarzi (1865), and Shah Shujah Durrani (1785).

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