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Dost Mohammad Khan
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first Emir of Afghanistan (1823-1863)
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Dost Mohammad Khan (1793–1863) was a Pashto-speaking politician and Amir of the Emirate of Afghanistan. Born in Kandahar, he belonged to the Barakzai dynasty and practiced Sunni Islam. He succeeded Ayub Shah Durrani as ruler and was later replaced by his son, Akbar Khan.
Khan had 52 children, including Mohammad Azam Khan, Mohammad Afzal Khan, Sher Ali Khan, and Akbar Khan. He died in Herat. His life and reign are documented in sources such as the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary and the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition.
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Key facts
- Reign
- 30 November 1855 – 9 June 1863
- Predecessor
- Himself (as Emir of Kabul)
- Successor
- Sher Ali Khan
- 2nd reign
- April 1843 – 30 November 1855
- Born
- ( 1792-12-23 ) 23 December 1792 , Kandahar , Durrani Empire
- Died
- 9 June 1863 (1863-06-09) (aged 70) , Herat , Emirate of Afghanistan
- Burial
- 9 June 1863, Shrine of Khwaja Abd Allah , Herat , Afghanistan
- Dynasty
- Barakzai dynasty
- Father
- Payandah Khan
- Mother
- Zainab Begum
- Religion
- Sunni Islam
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Encyclopedic overview
Dost Mohammad Khan Barakzai, (23 December 1792 – 9 June 1863) nicknamed the Great Emir, 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 succeeded his brother Sultan Mohammad Khan, and became the Emir of Afghanistan in 1826. An ethnic Pashtun, he belonged to the Mohammadzai branch of the Barakzai tribe. He was the 11th son of Payandah Khan, chief of the Barakzai Pashtuns, who was killed in 1800 by King Zaman Shah Durrani.
At the beginning of his rule, the Afghans lost their former stronghold of Peshawar Valley in March 1823 to the Sikh Khalsa Army of Ranjit Singh at the Battle of Nowshera. The Afghan forces in the battle were led by Mohammad Azim Khan, half-brother of Dost Mohammad Khan. By the end of his reign, he had reunited the principalities of Kandahar and Herat with Kabul. Dost had ruled for a lengthy 36 years, a span exceeded only by Mohammad Zahir Shah more than a century later.
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