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Mahmud Shah Durrani

1769 - 1829

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Mahmud Shah Durrani (Pashto/Persian: محمود شاہ درانی); 1769 – 18 April 1829) was born prince and later ruler of the Durrani Empire (Afghanistan) between 1801 and 1803, and again between 1809 and 1818. From 1818 to 1829 he was the ruler of Herat. From an ethnic Sadduzai tribe section of the Popalzai sub-clan of the Durrani Pashtuns, he was the son of Timur Shah Durrani and grandson of Ahmad Shah Durrani. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mahmud Shah Durrani is the 6,269th most popular politician (up from 15,113th in 2019), the 52nd most popular biography from Afghanistan (up from 122nd in 2019) and the 36th most popular Afghan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mahmud Shah Durrani ranks 6,269 out of 19,576. Before him are Alfonso IV d'Este, Duke of Modena, Samak Sundaravej, Ibrahim Bey, Alejandro Toledo, Lu'ay al-Atassi, and Barham Salih. After him are John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg, Yang Kaihui, Theudoald, Louise of France, William V, Duke of Aquitaine, and Gondioc.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1769, Mahmud Shah Durrani ranks 16. Before him are Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, André-Jacques Garnerin, Ivan Kotliarevsky, Józef Elsner, William Smith, and Thomas Lawrence. After him are Ernst Moritz Arndt, Barthélemy Catherine Joubert, Aleksey Arakcheyev, Duchess Charlotte Georgine of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, and Lotf Ali Khan. Among people deceased in 1829, Mahmud Shah Durrani ranks 20. Before him are Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony, Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg, Adam Albert von Neipperg, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, Jean-Baptiste Regnault, and Infanta Benedita of Portugal. After him are Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, Maria Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Massa, Peter I, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Kittur Chennamma, Josef Dobrovský, and Sikandar Jah.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Mahmud Shah Durrani ranks 52 out of 177. Before him are Minhaj-i-Siraj (1193), Abu Sa'id Gardezi (1100), Abdul Rashid Dostum (1954), Haji Mohammad Chamkani (1947), Tahir ibn Husayn (776), and Ali Hujwiri (1009). After him are Mirwais Hotak (1673), Abu Sa'id Mirza (1424), Abd-al-Razzāq Samarqandī (1413), Abdul Rahim Hatif (1926), Mas'ud I of Ghazni (998), and Sher Ali Khan (1825).

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Among POLITICIANS In Afghanistan

Among politicians born in Afghanistan, Mahmud Shah Durrani ranks 36. Before 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). After him are Mirwais Hotak (1673), Abu Sa'id Mirza (1424), Abdul Rahim Hatif (1926), Mas'ud I of Ghazni (998), Sher Ali Khan (1825), and Menander I (-190).

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