Zaynab al-Nafzawiyya
Moroccan queen
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Quaiapen
She became saunkskwa, or female sachem, of the Narangasset and Niantic peoples in 1657
Alliquippa
Alliquippa was a prominent leader of the Seneca nation for at least a decade before her death in December 1754.
Awashonks
Awashonks was a sachem, or chief, of the Sakonnet people in present-day Rhode Island, North America. She was not born into this royal role but had proved herself as a powerful leader.
Putahaie
Putahaie, likely born in the mid eighteenth century, was the wife of Temotei’i of Taiohae Bay, Nukuhiva, in the Marquesas and was a significant landholder in the western part of the island’s bay.
Anna Jagiellon
Anna Jagiellon (1523-1596) has the distinction of being the only woman in the early modern period to stand in a royal election—and the only woman to have won one, too.
Matelita
A paramount chief of the islands of Manu’a, now in American Samoa.
Eleni
Eleni, also known as Queen of Zeila, was Empress of Ethiopia from 1434-1468, and later queen regent.
Verónica I of Matamba
Queen Verónica of Matamba, which was situated in modern day Angola, reigned from 1681 after the death of her brother Ngola Kanini.
Sŏndŏk of Silla
Korean queen