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Emperor Kangxi

The Kangxi Emperor ruled Qing China from 1661 to 1722, giving him the longest recorded reign of any Chinese emperor. Dur...

Expansion Chinese 17TH Century Long Reign

8.8 Great

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Tsar Peter I the Great

Peter I ruled Russia from 1682 to 1725, first as tsar and later under the title emperor, and pursued extensive military,...

Russian 17TH Century Founder Modernizer

8.6 Great

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Emperor Menelik II

Menelik II was emperor of Ethiopia from 1889 to 1913 and had previously ruled Shewa as king. During his reign Ethiopia e...

19TH Century Ethiopian Modernizer Solomonic

8.1 Great

4

King George VI

George VI (1895-1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the dominions of the British Commonwealth from December 1936 un...

20TH Century Wartime British Commonwealth

7.8 Good

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Emperor Akihito (Heisei)

Akihito was emperor of Japan from 1989 until his abdication in 2019, and his reign is identified with the Heisei era. He...

Japanese Pacifist 20TH Century Yamato

7.6 Good

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Queen Margrethe II of Denmark

Margrethe II was queen of Denmark from January 1972 until her abdication in January 2024, when her elder son succeeded h...

Danish Artist 20TH Century Glucksburg

7.6 Good

7

King George V

George V was king of the United Kingdom and the British dominions, and emperor of India, from 1910 until his death in 19...

20TH Century British Wwi Commonwealth

7.5 Good

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King Abdulaziz Ibn Saud

Abdulaziz ibn Saud was the founder and first king of Saudi Arabia. Beginning with the recapture of Riyadh in 1902, he br...

20TH Century Founder Saudi Al Saud

7.4 Good

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Emperor Haile Selassie I

Haile Selassie I was emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974, apart from the period of Italian occupation that followed th...

20TH Century Ethiopian Solomonic Last Emperor

7.2 Good

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King Hussein I of Jordan

Hussein bin Talal (1935-1999) was the Hashemite king of Jordan from 1952 until his death, although a regency governed un...

20TH Century Jordanian Hashemite Long Reign

7.2 Good

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King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX)

Bhumibol Adulyadej (1927-2016), known by the regnal title Rama IX, was king of Thailand from 1946 until his death. A mem...

Longest Reign 20TH Century Thai Chakri

7.2 Good

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King Faisal of Saudi Arabia

Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (1906-1975) was king of Saudi Arabia from 1964 until his assassination in 1975. His governm...

20TH Century Saudi Modernizer Al Saud

7.1 Good

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King Michael I of Romania

Michael I was King of Romania during two separate reigns, from 1927 to 1930 and from 1940 until 1947. On 23 August 1944,...

Wwii 20TH Century Romanian Hohenzollern

6.9 Fair

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Emperor Tewodros II of Ethiopia

Emperor Tewodros II of Ethiopia, born Kassa Hailu around 1818, ruled as emperor from 1855 until 1868. He pursued the pol...

19TH Century Ethiopian Suicide Modernizer

6.7 Fair

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King Faisal I of Iraq

Faisal I of Iraq was a Hashemite statesman who became Iraq's first king in 1921 after the Ottoman Empire's rule in the r...

20TH Century Founder Iraqi Hashemite

6.5 Fair

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King Norodom Sihanouk

Norodom Sihanouk was a Cambodian monarch and political leader who lived from 1922 to 2012. He was king from 1941 to 1955...

20TH Century Independence Cambodian Norodom

6.2 Fair

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Sultan Haitham bin Tariq

Sultan Haitham bin Tariq is the current Sultan of Oman, having acceded to the throne in January 2020 following the death...

21ST Century Middle Eastern Current Omani

6.1 Fair

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Emperor Francis Joseph I

Francis Joseph I was emperor of Austria and king of Hungary from 1848 until his death in 1916. His reign included the 18...

Austrian 19TH Century Habsburg Austria Hungary

6.0 Fair

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Emperor Taisho

Emperor Taisho was the posthumous name of Yoshihito, the 123rd emperor of Japan, who reigned from 1912 until his death i...

Japanese 20TH Century Democracy Yamato

6.0 Fair

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Emperor Hirohito (Showa)

Emperor Showa was the imperial name used for Hirohito, who reigned as emperor of Japan from 1926 to 1989. His reign incl...

Wwii Japanese 20TH Century Yamato

4.9 Poor