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English: Sher Shah Suri, founder of the Sur Empire in northern India in the 16th century. He defeated the powerful Mughal Empire under Humayun but died 5 years later due to an accident while loading a cannon. He was an ethnic Afghan (now Pashtun) but was born in what is now India.
Date before 1943
date QS:P,+1943-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1943-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source http://www.freewebs.com/tawabwahab/apps/photos/photo?photoid=55306157
Author Ustad Abdul Ghafur Breshna, a prominent Afghan artist from Kabul
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19:06, 23 April 2006Thumbnail for version as of 19:06, 23 April 2006370 × 561 (81 KB)Matt314{{Information| |Description=Sher Schah |Source=Originally from [http://en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia]; description page is (was) here * 23:58, 30 December 2005 Paul Barlow 370x561 (83403 bytes) ''<nowiki

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