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Timur Shah Durrani

Died in 1793

Timur Shah was born in December 1746 in Mashhad, the son of Ahmad Shah Durrani, who made him viceroy of the Punjab and Kashmir at the age of eleven. He reigned from 1772 to 1793 and made Kabul the capital in place of Kandahar; his reign saw plots and revolts, at Peshawar and in Kashmir. He died on 18 May 1793 and is buried in Kabul. Several of his sons would reign after him.

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