POLITICIAN

Shah Shujah Durrani

1785 - 1842

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Shah Shuja Durrani (Pashto/Persian: شاه شجاع درانی ; November 1785 – 5 April 1842) was ruler of the Durrani Empire from 1803 to 1809. He then ruled from 1839 until his death in 1842. Son of Timur Shah Durrani, Shuja Shah was of the Sadduzai line of the Abdali group of ethnic Pashtuns. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shah Shujah Durrani has received more than 294,813 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Shah Shujah Durrani is the 12,326th most popular politician (down from 11,100th in 2019), the 94th most popular biography from Afghanistan (down from 85th in 2019) and the 62nd most popular Afghan Politician.

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Over the past year Shah Shujah Durrani has had the most page views in the with 48,026 views, followed by Persian (11,843), and Russian (4,151). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Thai (262.73%), Dutch (140.12%), and Southern Azerbaijani (84.44%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Shah Shujah Durrani ranks 12,326 out of 19,576Before him are Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo, Ruth Fischer, Andrei Zhelyabov, Carlos María de Alvear, Hamadi Jebali, and Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus. After him are Marina Silva, Ants Antson, Adolf Ogi, Kay Ivey, Ashur-nadin-ahhe II, and Khin Nyunt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1785, Shah Shujah Durrani ranks 39Before him are Vicente López y Planes, José Miguel Carrera, Hermann, Fürst von Pückler-Muskau, Agustín Gamarra, Lady Caroline Lamb, and Archduke Karl of Austria-Este. After him are Anna Sundström, Francisco Antonio Pinto, August Böckh, Martín Miguel de Güemes, János Scitovszky, and Abel de Pujol. Among people deceased in 1842, Shah Shujah Durrani ranks 29Before him are Pierre Baillot, Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo, Robert Smith, Nodira, and Thomas Arnold. After him are Wilhelm Gesenius, Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, Leona Vicario, Aleksey Koltsov, Henry Shrapnel, and James Ivory.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Shah Shujah Durrani ranks 94 out of 177Before him are Abdul Ahad Mohmand (1959), Ali Hujwiri (1009), Wazir Akbar Khan (1816), Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad (1139), Farrukhi Sistani (980), and Mahmud Tarzi (1865). After him are Amrullah Saleh (1972), Heliocles I (-200), Kamran Mirza (1512), Zalmay Khalilzad (1951), Ayub Khan (1857), and Kader Khan (1937).

Among POLITICIANS In Afghanistan

Among politicians born in Afghanistan, Shah Shujah Durrani ranks 62Before him are Mohammad Yaqub Khan (1849), Demetrius I of Bactria (-300), Abdul Qadir (1944), Wazir Akbar Khan (1816), Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad (1139), and Mahmud Tarzi (1865). After him are Amrullah Saleh (1972), Heliocles I (-200), Kamran Mirza (1512), Zalmay Khalilzad (1951), Ayub Khan (1857), and Amr ibn al-Layth (null).