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Timur Shah Durrani
Sign in to saveAlso known as Timur Shah DurraniThe second emperor of the Durrani Empire who ruled from 16 October 1772 to May 1793. Timur Shah Durrani was the son of Ahmad Shah Abdali. Timur Shah Durrani was born in 1746 and died in 1793Ahmad Shah Abdali had 8 sons: 1, Prin, Sulaiman, 2 Amir Timur Shah, 3, Prince Shahab, 4, Prince Sanjar, 5, Prince Yazdan Bakhsh, 6, Prince Sikandar, 7, Prince Darab, 8, Prince Parvez Ahmad, Durrani rule Shah Abdali 1747 to 1772 Timur Shah 1772 to 1793 Zaman Shah 1793 to 1801 Mahmud Shah 1801 to 1803 Shah Shuja 1803 to 1809 Mahmud Shah for the second time 1809 to 1818, Ali Shah 1818 to 1819 Ayub Shah 1819 to 1823 Amir Ayub Shah deposed and killed his brother Ali Shah Durrani in 1819 and ascended the throne himself After the assassination of his father, Sardar Allah Yar, the eldest son of Ali Shah Durrani, , moved to northern Afghanistan, now part of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, and at the same time, the battles for the throne between Ahmad Shah Abdali or Durrani's grandsons deprived the Durrani family of the Afghan throne
Emir of Afghanistan (1746 , 1793)
Key facts
- Reign
- November 1772 – 20 May 1793
- Coronation
- November 1772
- Predecessor
- Ahmad Shah Durrani
- Successor
- Zaman Shah Durrani
- Born
- December 1746 , Mashhad , Afsharid Iran
- Died
- 18 May 1793 (aged 46), Char Bagh , Durrani Empire , (present-day Afghanistan )
- Cause of death
- Intestinal inflammation
- Burial
- 21 May 1793, Maqbara-i-Timur Shah, Kabul
- Spouse
- Gauhar-un-Nissa Begum, Maryam Begum , Gauhar Shad Begum , Ayesha Durrani
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Durrani Empire
- Place of birth
- Mashhad
- Place of death
- Kabul
- Father
- Ahmed Shahe Durrani
- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- emperor
- Family
- Durrani
- Image
- Temur-Shah.jpg
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- Commons category
- Timur Shah Durrani
- date of birth
- 1746-00-00
- date of death
- 1793-05-18
- replaced by
- Zaman Shah Durrani
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Encyclopedic overview
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