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Dost Mohammad Khan

1793 - 1863

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Dost Mohammad Khan Barakzai (Pashto/Dari: دوست محمد خان; 23 December 1792 – 8 June 1863), nicknamed the Amir-i Kabir, was the founder of the Barakzai dynasty and one of the prominent rulers of Afghanistan during the First Anglo-Afghan War. With the decline of the Durrani dynasty, he became the Emir of Afghanistan in 1826. An ethnic Pashtun, he belonged to the Barakzai tribe. He was the 11th son of Payinda Khan, chief of the Barakzai Pashtuns, who was killed in 1799 by King Zaman Shah Durrani. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dost Mohammad Khan is the 1,215th most popular politician (up from 8,420th in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from Afghanistan (up from 67th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Afghan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Dost Mohammad Khan ranks 1,215 out of 19,576. Before him are Jiroemon Kimura, Andromache, Princess Birgitta of Sweden, Kurt von Schleicher, Władysław III of Poland, and Piero di Cosimo de' Medici. After him are Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Wilm Hosenfeld, Christian I of Denmark, Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Andrei Gromyko, and Helmut Schmidt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1793, Dost Mohammad Khan ranks 2. Before him is Ferdinand I of Austria. After him are Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, Karl Ludwig Hencke, George Green, Victor of Aveyron, Ján Kollár, Juan Manuel de Rosas, Nana Asmaʼu, Ludwig Reichenbach, Michel Chasles, and Maria Teresa, Princess of Beira. Among people deceased in 1863, Dost Mohammad Khan ranks 4. Before him are Eugène Delacroix, Stonewall Jackson, and Jacob Grimm. After him are Frederick VII of Denmark, William Makepeace Thackeray, Sa'id of Egypt, Horace Vernet, Jakob Steiner, Alfred de Vigny, Franz Xaver Gruber, and Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Dost Mohammad Khan ranks 16 out of 177. Before him are Amanullah Khan (1892), Hasan Akhund (1945), Burhanuddin Rabbani (1940), Mohammed Daoud Khan (1909), Mohammad Najibullah (1947), and Ahmad Shah Massoud (1953). After him are Abu Dawood (817), Muhammad of Ghor (1160), Mohammed Omar (1962), Ali-Shir Nava'i (1441), Muhammad Shah (1702), and Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī (1837).

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Among POLITICIANS In Afghanistan

Among politicians born in Afghanistan, Dost Mohammad Khan ranks 13. Before him are Amanullah Khan (1892), Hasan Akhund (1945), Burhanuddin Rabbani (1940), Mohammed Daoud Khan (1909), Mohammad Najibullah (1947), and Ahmad Shah Massoud (1953). After him are Muhammad of Ghor (1160), Mohammed Omar (1962), Muhammad Shah (1702), Babrak Karmal (1929), Hibatullah Akhundzada (1961), and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (1949).

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