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Dost Mohammad Khan
Sign in to saveAlso known as Emir Dost Mohammad Khan Barakzai, Dost Mohammad Khan Barakzai, Dost Mahomed Khan, Dost Muhammad Khan
first Emir of Afghanistan (1823-1863)
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
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Emirate of Afghanistan
- Place of birth
- Kandahar
- Place of death
- Herat
- Child
- Akbar Khan
- Occupation
- politician
- Languages spoken
- Pashto
- Religion
- Sunni Islam
- Family
- Barakzai dynasty
- Image
- Dost Mohammad Khan of Afghanistan.jpg
- Number of children
- 52
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- Commons category
- Dost Mohammad Khan
- date of birth
- 1793-12-23
- date of death
- 1863-06-09
- name in native language
- دوست محمد خان
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- replaces
- Ayub Shah Durrani
- replaced by
- Akbar Khan
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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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dost Mohammad Khan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.