Amanullah Khan

/ ˌæməˈnʊlə kɑːn /

noun

1. KhanAmanullah18921960MAfghanPOLITICS: hereditary ruler 1892–1960, emir (1919–26) and king (1926–29) of Afghanistan; he obtained Afghan independence from Britain (1919)

Example Sentences

As the Taliban descended on Kabul over the weekend, Ghani told the people that he would avoid the fate of former king Amanullah Khan, who abdicated and fled to British India in 1929.

From Seattle Times

In the lobby of the high school where Safi’s brother Hamun is the principal, near the family’s apartment in a crowded suburb of east Kabul, a large wall-hanging depicts several of Afghanistan’s historic heroes, including King Amanullah Khan, a reformist monarch from the 1920s, and the late anti-Taliban commander Ahmad Shah Massoud.

From Washington Post

Reduced to a shattered skeleton following repeated bombardments over the years, the imposing European-style palace was built in the 1920s by former King Amanullah Khan on a low hilltop just outside the capital.

From Reuters

King Amanullah Khan commissioned the palace in 1920 during a spree to modernize the country.

From Slate

Decades of fighting have eroded the grandeur of the European-style palace, built by King Amanullah Khan atop a small hill on the outskirts of Kabul in the early 1920s following full Afghan independence from Britain in 1919.

From Reuters