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Warrior queen of the Nubian kingdom of Kush.

Boran was a Sasanian queen of Iran from 630-32.

Two-spirited Gros Ventres leader of the 1800s

Elsie Knott was the first Anishinaabe Kwe O’gimaa (first woman to serve as chief of a First Nation in Canada).

The only known female chief of the Hocąk or Winnebago nation

One of the earliest regnant queens of Ancient Nubia

Ancient Egyptian queen of the 1500s BCE

1700s Portugese queen

Ruler of the Mughal Empire (almost all of modern-day Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and large parts of northern and central India) in the 1600s

Ruler of the Delhi Sultanate, India in the 1200s and the subcontinent’s first female Muslim ruler.