empress

At the same time, she draws inspiration from the women in Ethiopian history who fought for the country’s independence, including an empress who went into battle against the Italian army.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

A Tang dynasty empress is believed to have sent two to Japan in the seventh century.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

That is the year Russian empress Catherine the Great is said to have founded the city, although it has been widely questioned in recent years.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

The former empress was driven into exile with her husband, late pro-Western shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, in January 1979 during a popular revolution that ousted the monarchy and brought the Islamic republic to power.

From Barron's ● Mar. 3, 2026

The girl, who would grow up without a father, was named Theodora, after the scandalous empress of Byzantium whom Sourmelina admired.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Recording from his home in Pasadena, he has played men and women of all ages, races, nationalities and abilities, as well as “postapocalyptic people living in trees and empresses of fictitious planets,” he notes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2025

The organisation has close ties with the imperial family, with previous empresses serving as honorary presidents.

From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2024

For a long while in history, the women cheered in Canyon Of Heroes parades tended to be queens or princesses or empresses.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2019

I postponed my research on Sims, believing him to be an altruistic outlier who could be a balm in my distressing work: someone who, according to one statue’s inscription, treated “alike empresses and slaves”.

From Nature ● Sep. 17, 2017

This being the case, it is only just to say that, if example could afford it, the empresses had ample excuse for the most flagrant irregularities recorded of them.

From Roman Women by Alfred Brittain