Ana II of Matamba
Ruling until 1756, Ana was regnant of Matamba and neighbouring kingdom Ndongo.
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Kalanikauleleiaiwi
Kalanikauleleiaiwi was co-ruler of Hawai’i, alongside her brother King Keaweʻīkekahialiʻiokamoku, in the late 17th and early 18th century.
Wu Zetian
Wu Zetian (624-705) was empress consort of China through her marriage to Emperor Gaozong, and later became empress dowager and regent for her sons Zhongzong and Ruizong. She later became the first empress regnant of China.
Eleanor of Aquitaine
One of the most famous queens of medieval western Europe. Crowned queen of both France and England, her long life and several heirs, and position as one of the wealthiest duchesses of western Europe, enabled her to exert great influence in the Anglo-French sphere.
Zewditu
Ethiopian empress of the 1910s and 1920s
Weetamoo
Sunksqua (chief) of the Native American Pocasset tribe.
Trưng Trắc
The Trung sisters organised an army – composed mostly of women – and rose up against the Chinese regime, eventually securing Vietnamese independence from China for the first time in 150 years.
Artemisia I of Caria
Queen of Halicarnassus (c. 484-460), in what is now southwest Turkey
Keakealani’wahine
Sovereign queen of Hawaii
Njinga of Ndongo and Matamba
Njinga, born c. 1582 to the royal family of Ndongo, was trained in both as a diplomat and in warfare during her adolescence. These skills came into practice many times during her reign as she resisted Portuguese colonial expansion into her kingdoms.