Ahmad Shah Durrani
Founder of the Durrani Empire, considered founder of the state of Afghanistan
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ahmad Shāh Durrānī , also known as Ahmad Shāh Abdālī , was the founder of the Durrani Empire and is often regarded as the founder of the modern Afghanistan. In June 1747, Ahmad Shah was appointed as King of the Afghans by a loya jirga in Kandahar, where he set up his capital. Primarily with the support of the Pashtun tribes, Ahmad Shah pushed east towards the Mughal and Maratha Empires of India, west towards the disintegrating Afsharid Empire of Iran, and north towards the Khanate of Bukhara of Turkestan. Within a few years, he extended his control from Khorasan in the west to North India in the east, and from the Amu Darya in the north to the Arabian Sea in the south.
