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Habibullāh Kalakāni

1890 - 1929

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Habibullah Kalakani (‎1870 or 1891 – 1 November 1929), derogatively called "Bacha-ye Saqao" (also romanized Bachai Sakao; literally son of the water carrier), was the ruler of Afghanistan from 17 January to 13 October 1929, as well as a leader of the Saqqawists. During the Afghan Civil War (1928–1929), he captured vast swathes of Afghanistan and ruled Kabul during what is known in Afghan historiography as the "Saqqawist period". He was an ethnic Tajik. No country recognized Kalakani as ruler of Afghanistan. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Habibullāh Kalakāni is the 4,650th most popular politician (down from 3,980th in 2019), the 39th most popular biography from Afghanistan (down from 33rd in 2019) and the 29th most popular Afghan Politician.

Habibullāh Kalakāni is most famous for being the first person to take the Afghan throne from the British.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Habibullāh Kalakāni ranks 4,650 out of 19,576. Before him are Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden, Ashot I of Armenia, Maria Christina, Princess of Transylvania, Norodom of Cambodia, Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, and Bertha of Savoy. After him are Wallia, Nobuyuki Abe, István Széchenyi, Liz Cheney, Dorcas, and Sisygambis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Habibullāh Kalakāni ranks 48. Before him are Hans-Valentin Hube, Nikolai Trubetzkoy, Groucho Marx, Jacques Ibert, Alfredo Ottaviani, and Moša Pijade. After him are Harold Bride, Naum Gabo, Kurt Tucholsky, Georgy Pyatakov, Viktor Lutze, and Li Zongren. Among people deceased in 1929, Habibullāh Kalakāni ranks 30. Before him are Wyatt Earp, Sadhu Sundar Singh, Johann II, Prince of Liechtenstein, Prince Henry of Prussia, Leonard Hobhouse, and Franz Rosenzweig. After him are Richard Réti, Carl Auer von Welsbach, Gyula Andrássy the Younger, Oldfield Thomas, Arthur Scherbius, and Jan Baudouin de Courtenay.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Habibullāh Kalakāni ranks 39 out of 177. Before him are Abdur Rahman Khan (1844), Sultan Husayn Bayqara (1438), Shah Shujah Durrani (1785), Khalil Sultan (1384), Heracles of Macedon (-327), and Khaled Hosseini (1965). After him are Ibn al-Rawandi (827), Jalal-ud-din Khalji (1220), Wazir Akbar Khan (1816), Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khalji (1101), Nur Jahan (1577), and Sibghatullah Mojaddedi (1925).

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Among POLITICIANS In Afghanistan

Among politicians born in Afghanistan, Habibullāh Kalakāni ranks 29. Before him are Nur Muhammad Taraki (1917), Abdur Rahman Khan (1844), Sultan Husayn Bayqara (1438), Shah Shujah Durrani (1785), Khalil Sultan (1384), and Heracles of Macedon (-327). After him are Jalal-ud-din Khalji (1220), Wazir Akbar Khan (1816), Sibghatullah Mojaddedi (1925), Abdul Rashid Dostum (1954), Haji Mohammad Chamkani (1947), and Tahir ibn Husayn (776).

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