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Mahmud Shah Durrani

1769–1829 · 19th century

Mahmud Shah Durrani was a Sadozai ruler of the Durrani Empire, reigning in Kabul from 1801 to 1803 and again from 1809 to 1818. When the Barakzai brothers took over most of the realm, he withdrew to Herat, which he and his son Kamran Shah held as an independent principality. He died there in 1829.

Mahmud Shah Durrani
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Principality of Herat

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