Durrani Empire
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The Durrani Empire, colloquially known as the Kingdom of Afghanistan, the Afghan Empire, or the Sadozai Kingdom, was an Afghan empire founded in 1747 by Ahmad Shah Durrani of the Pashtun Durrani tribe
Portrait of Ahmad Shah Durrani, c. 1757
Delegates from Badakhshan in Peking, 1761
Ahmad Shah Durrani and his coalition decisively defeat the Maratha Confederacy, during the Third Battle of Panipat and restored the Mughal Empire to Shah Alam II.
Muslim man from Afghanistan (愛烏罕回人). Huang Qing Zhigong Tu, 1769
Dost Mohammad Khan
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Dost Mohammad Khan Barakzai, 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
Miniature portrait of Dost Mohammad Khan c. 1835
Portrait of Payendah Khan Barakzai father of Emir Dost Mohammad Khan
Khan with 3 sons.
Lithograph titled 'Dost Mahomed Khan and Part of His Family', by Emily Eden in 1841 (in Calcutta), published in 'Portraits of the Princes & People of India' in 1844