female ruler
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The collapse of the Sasanian ruling family in Persia also provides a unique glimpse into something that had not happened among the elite before: the brief rise of a female ruler, Boran.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
Another female ruler, Hatshepsut, also changed her name to take on a male persona as pharaoh more than 100 years before Nefertiti, Hawass said.
From Scientific American • Nov. 4, 2022
She was a female ruler and remained unmarried.
From Slate • Dec. 6, 2018
It’s the first time a female ruler has presided over the equestrian jousting dinner theater experience in its nearly 35-year history in America.
From Washington Post • Nov. 27, 2018
The fact that Cihuacoatl is named “the sister” of Huitzilopochtli shows that the female ruler was not necessarily his wife, although she was his coadjutor in her own right.
From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Nuttall, Zelia
