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Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar

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Ya'qūb ibn al-Layth al-Saffār (Persian: یعقوب لیث صفاری; 25 October 840 – 5 June 879), was a coppersmith and the founder of the Saffarid dynasty of Sistan, with its capital at Zaranj (a city now in south-western Afghanistan). Under his military leadership, he conquered much of the eastern portions of Greater Iran consisting of modern-day Iran, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan as well as portions of western Pakistan and a small part of Iraq. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar has received more than 176,788 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar is the 7,373rd most popular politician (up from 7,504th in 2019), the 61st most popular biography from Afghanistan (down from 50th in 2019) and the 45th most popular Afghan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar ranks 7,373 out of 15,577Before him are Malyuta Skuratov, Umayya ibn Abd Shams, Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Archduke Leopold Ludwig of Austria, Bernhard Schmidt, and Theophano Martinakia. After him are Bettino Ricasoli, Tiberius Sempronius Longus, Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne, Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria, Samsu-Ditana, and Ayad Allawi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 840, Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar ranks 8Before him are Clement of Ohrid, Pope Theodore II, Svatopluk I of Moravia, Wilfred the Hairy, Richardis, and Notker the Stammerer. After him are Hucbald, Eudokia Ingerina, and Unruoch III of Friuli. Among people deceased in 879, Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar ranks 5Before him are Rurik, Louis the Stammerer, Baldwin I, Margrave of Flanders, and Anastasius Bibliothecarius. After him are Ansgarde of Burgundy and Zdeslav of Croatia.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar ranks 61 out of 145Before him are Ismail Khan (1946), Muhammad Shah (1702), Abdul Ghani Baradar (1968), Abu Sa'id Mirza (1424), Sanai (1080), and Abdullah Abdullah (1960). After him are Diodotus II (-252), Abdul Ali Mazari (1946), Ibn Hibban (883), Saman Khuda (701), Eucratides I (-170), and Jalal-ud-din Khalji (1220).

Among POLITICIANS In Afghanistan

Among politicians born in Afghanistan, Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar ranks 45Before him are Haji Mohammad Chamkani (1947), Ismail Khan (1946), Muhammad Shah (1702), Abdul Ghani Baradar (1968), Abu Sa'id Mirza (1424), and Abdullah Abdullah (1960). After him are Diodotus II (-252), Abdul Ali Mazari (1946), Saman Khuda (701), Eucratides I (-170), Jalal-ud-din Khalji (1220), and Kujula Kadphises (20).