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Queen Idia
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Queen Idia

Idia (First Iyoba of Benin)
🇳🇬 Benin Empire
c. 1475 CE – c. 1550 CE (75 years old)

Celebrated warrior queen and spiritual strategist of the Benin Empire, the first Iyoba (Queen Mother), immortalized worldwide by the famous 16th-century ivory pendant mask chosen as the symbol of FESTAC 77.

Benin City (Edo State), Nigeria
Askia Ishaq I
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Askia Ishaq I

Askia Ishaq I (Ishaq ibn Muhammad)
🌐 Songhai Empire
Unknown – 1549

Fifth monarch of the Askia dynasty of the Songhai Empire (reigned 1539–1549) who restored fiscal solvency, maintained strict central discipline, and famously repelled Moroccan demands for the lucrative Saharan salt mines of Taghaza.

Gao, Mali
Hayreddin Barbarossa
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Hayreddin Barbarossa

خير الدين بربروس
🇬🇷 Ottoman Empire
c. 1478 – 1546 (68 years old)

Younger brother of Aruj who placed Algiers under Ottoman caliphal protection, destroyed the Spanish Peñón of Algiers, conquered Tunis, and routed Holy League navies at the Battle of Preveza in 1538.

Besiktas (Istanbul), Turkey
Askia Muhammad I
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Askia Muhammad I

Askia Muhammad I (Askia the Great)
🌐 Songhai Empire
c. 1443 CE – 1538 (95 years old)

Emperor of the Songhai Empire known as Askia the Great, who expanded the empire to its maximum territorial height and made Timbuktu the premier intellectual capital of West Africa.

Gao, Mali
Babur
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Babur

ظہیر الدین محمد بابر
🇺🇿 Timurid Empire
1483 – 1530 (47 years old)

Central Asian conqueror, poet, and founder of the Mughal Empire in India, celebrated for defeating the Delhi Sultanate at the Battle of Panipat and authoring his candid autobiography Baburnama.

Kabul, Afghanistan
Krishnadevaraya
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Krishnadevaraya

ಶ್ರೀ ಕೃಷ್ಣದೇವರಾಯ (శ్రీ కృష్ణదేవరాయ)
🇮🇳 Vijayanagara Empire
1471 – 1529 (58 years old)

Greatest emperor of the Vijayanagara Empire (1509–1529) who presided over the golden age of South Indian architecture and literature, built the breathtaking temple monuments of Hampi, and authored the Telugu epic 'Amuktamalyada'.

Hampi (Bellary, Karnataka), India
Aruj Barbarossa
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Aruj Barbarossa

عروج بربروس
🇬🇷 Ottoman Empire
c. 1474 – 1518 (44 years old)

Legendary Ottoman-Algerian privateer known as 'Redbeard' (Baba Aruj) who rescued thousands of Andalusian Muslims and Jews from Spain, seized Algiers in 1516, and founded the Regency of Algiers.

El Malah (Aïn Témouchent), Algeria
Tupac Inca Yupanqui
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Tupac Inca Yupanqui

Topa Inka Yupanki
🇵🇪 Inca Empire
c. 1441 CE – c. 1493 CE (52 years old)

Tenth Sapa Inca and supreme military conqueror of the Inca Empire, who doubled the empire's size from Ecuador to central Chile and led a legendary balsa-raft expedition across the Pacific Ocean.

Chinchero (Urubamba Valley), Peru
Sunni Ali Ber
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Sunni Ali Ber

Si Ali Ber (Sonni Ali)
🌐 Songhai Empire
Unknown – 1492

First great imperial ruler of the Songhai Empire (1464–1492) who transformed a local riverine kingdom into West Africa's dominant superpower, capturing the scholarly cities of Timbuktu and Djenné with a legendary river fleet and cavalry.

Gao, Mali
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