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King of Macedon from 336 to 323 BC

Mauryan emperor from 269 to 232 BCE

Roman general and dictator (100–44 BC)

Pharaoh of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC

Roman emperor from 27 BC to AD 14

Empress of China from 690 to 705

Carolingian emperor from 800 to 814

Khan of the Mongol Empire from 1206 to 1227

Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1520–1566)

Mughal emperor from 1556 to 1605

Queen of England and Ireland from 1558 to 1603

Empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796

U.S. Founding Father, president from 1789 to 1797

French general and emperor (1769–1821)

Venezuelan statesman and military officer (1783–1830)

President of the United States from 1861 to 1865

Indian independence activist (1869–1948)

Leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953

Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945

Italian navigator and explorer (1451–1506)

Imperial dynasty in China (202 BC – 220 AD)

Roman statesman and lawyer (106–43 BC)

Florentine statesman, diplomat, and political theorist (1469–1527)

English philosopher and physician (1632–1704)

Italian writer and philosopher (1265–1321)

Imperial dynasty of China from 618 to 907

English naturalist and biologist (1809–1882)

English founder of modern nursing (1820–1910)

Founder of Islam (c. 570–632)

1st Shia Imam and 4th Rashidun caliph (656–661)

American business magnate (1863–1947)

Flemish artist and diplomat (1577–1640)

Chinese dynasty

Period in Chinese history from 420 to 589

First imperial dynasty in China (221–206 BC)

French painter (1748–1825)

French painter (1780–1867)

Legendary, semi-mythical period in Vietnamese historiography

French official who renovated Paris (1809–1891)

American landscape architect (1822–1903)

Chinese poet (c.340–278 BCE)

Tang-dynasty Chinese poet, musician, painter, and statesman

Ancient Chinese writer, essayist and poet (768–824)

Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty (772-846)

Chinese poet, historian and statesman (1007–1072)

European dynastic family

Imperial dynasty of China (960–1279)

Frankish noble family founded by Charles Martel

Macedonian Greek royal family which ruled Egypt

Cadet branch of French Capetian dynasty

Oghuz Turkic dynasty

1040–1147 Berber dynasty in west Africa and Iberia

Ruling family of the Franks (c. 481–751)

Imperial dynasty of Russia (1613–1917)

Sultanate in Egypt and Levant from 1171 to 1341

Twelver Shīʿa ruling dynasty of Iran (1501–1736)

English royal house of Welsh origin (r. 1485–1603)

Iranian royal dynasty of Turkic origin (1789–1925)

British royal family

European royal house of Frankish origin

British royal house of Scottish origin

German royal and imperial dynasty

Angevin royal dynasty that ruled England in the Middle Ages

Cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty

Iranian royal dynasty (1925–1979)

Lithuanian dynasty that ruled Lithuania, Poland, Hungary and Bohemia

Jurchen-led imperial dynasty of China

Royal family of the Ottoman Empire

People of the ancient Near East

Royal family of Saudi Arabia

Khitan-led dynasty of China (916–1125)

Cadet branch of the House of Plantagenet

Royal house of Sweden

French imperial dynasty

Roman imperial dynasty

Roman imperial dynasty (r 69–96 CE)

First ruling dynasty of Poland (960–1370)

800–909 Arab dynasty of North Africa and South Italy

Noble lineage and rulers of Kievan Rus'

Chinese imperial dynasty from 9 to 23 AD

European royal house of German origin

788–974 Arab dynasty ruling in the western Maghreb

Rulers of the Abbasid Caliphate

Shia Iranian dynasty in Iran and Iraq (934–1062)

Dynasty of 7 Roman Emperors from 96 AD to 192

Late 8th-century–1215 Iranian dynasty from Ghor, modern Afghanistan

821–873 Sunni Persian dynasty of Khorasan; Abbasid vassals

European dynasty of German origin

Saxon dynasty of German monarchs (919–1024)

Royal family of Jordan since 1921

861–1002 Eastern Iranian dynasty

European dynasty of German and Dutch origin

Byzantine imperial family

Byzantine Greek noble family

Dynasty of Hellenistic kings

Dynasty of Judea (140–37 BC)

Royal dynasty in Mesopotamia

1229–1574 Sunni Berber dynasty in North Africa

Historical dynasty of Turkoman origin (12–13th centuries AD)

Early modern royal house in Sweden

European noble family

Classical Indian dynasty (543–753)

Medieval Muslim Turkic dynasty and state (977–1186)

Roman imperial dynasty (ruled 193 to 235)

Rulers of the Byzantine Empire from 867 to 1056

Hungarian ruling dynasty (9th century – 1301)

Reigning dynasty of Thailand

German dynasty in the High Middle Ages

Ancient Tamil dynasty of South India

Rulers of northern India (c. 1206–1290)

Sunni Muslim dynasty in Spain (1232–1492)

Serbian and Yugoslav royal family

Royal house of Castilian origin

1510–1659 state in Morocco and Northwest Africa

1121–1269 Berber empire in North Africa and Iberia

Ruling dynasty of Morocco since 1631

Bohemian royal dynasty during the Middle Ages

1077–1260 Persianate Sunni Muslim dynasty of Turkic mamluk origin

First dynasty of the Macedonian Kingdom

Last dynasty of Vietnam (1802–1945)

Portuguese dynasty

Japanese imperial family

Mamluk dynasty in Egypt and Syria (868–905)

Turkic mamluk dynasty (935–969)

1290–1320 Turco-Afghan dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate

Dynasty in South Asia from 1320 to 1413

Rulers of the Delhi Sultanate in India, 1451–1526

German dynasty from Essen

Georgian royal dynasty

Turco-Mongol dynasty (1370–1857)

Greek state during the Hellenistic period

English royal dynasty

Serbian royal family

Portuguese dynasty

1472–1554 Berber dynasty ruling Morocco

Sanhaja Berber dynasty

Islamic state in northern Mesopotamia and Syria from 890 to 1004

Roman imperial dynasty in Late Antiquity, r. 379–457

Member of Ghengis Khan's Mongol sub-clan

Ruling dynasty of Egypt and Sudan from the 19th to the mid-20th century

Dynasty of 7 Roman Emperors from 96 AD to 192

Chinese ruling dynasty from 420 to 479

Imperial dynasty of Burma (1510–1752)

Ibadi ruling house in Algeria (777–909)

German noble family

931–1090 Gilaki dynasty of northern Iran

Chinese ruling dynasty from 479 to 502

Austrian imperial dynasty

European aristocratic dynasty

Serbian medieval dynasty

Rulers of the Delhi Sultanate (1414–1451)

French noble family, 10th century on

Kings of Armenia and later Sophene and Commagene

Eighth ruling dynasty of Magadha (73–28 BCE)

China's Southern Dynasties (502–557)

Medieval Turkoman dynasty

Chinese imperial dynasty from 923 to 937

Roman imperial dynasty in late antiquity, r. 364–392 and 421–455

Egyptian dynasty (1250–1382)

Arab Muslim dynasty (1023–1091)

Berber dynasty in north Africa

1818–1978 ruling dynasty of Afghanistan

Period of Byzantine history from 717 to 802

Hungarian noble family

Founding house of the Sasanian Empire (224–651)

Imperial Vietnamese dynasty (1225–1400)

Ruling dynasty of ancient Armenia from 189 BC to 12 AD

Dynasty that ruled Armenia from 12 to 428

Imperial state in China from 907 to 923

Dynasty of Turco-Mongol origin in Central Asia

Chinese ruling dynasty from 951 to 960

Ruling family of Bahrain

Ruling dynasty of the Khanate of Crimea

Dynasty of Swabian nobility

Royal house of Europe

Former empire in East Asia

Kingdom in northern Ethiopia and Eritrea (1137–1270)

Last of the Southern Dynasties in China (557–589)

Imperial dynasty of China (947–951)

Dynasty in Java from about 750 to 850 CE

Chinese dynasty (936–947)

Dynasty in medieval Bulgaria, 1185–1280

Dynasty in ancient South India

Descendants of Ali, cousin of Muhammad

Iranian empire (247 BC – 224 AD)

4th century state in northern China

Period of Byzantine history from 610 to 711

Ruling dynasty of ancient Karnataka in India

South Indian dynasty (1163–1323)

889–929 Iranian Muslim dynasty of Azerbaijan and Armenia

Royal family of the Seleucid Empire

Cadet branch of the House of Bourbon-Anjou

Period of Byzantine history from 518 to 602

Ruling dynasty of the Fatimid Caliphate

Arabian Muslim dynasty (1836–1921)

Ruling dynasty of Qatar

Lineage of the Israelite king David

Byzantine noble family

Turkic dynasty in Persia (1136–1225)

Ruling dynasty of Montenegro from 1697 to 1918

Royal dynasty of Idumaean (Edomite) descent

French noble family

Hindu dynasty of Bengal (1070–1230)

Dynasty of Egyptian monarchs (1382–1517 CE)

Ruling dynasty of Kuwait

Royal family of Bhutan

Rump state in China during the Ming–Qing transition

Late medieval Hindu dynasty of India (831–1315)

919–1062 Iranian Muslim dynasty in Azerbaijan

Bulgar Clan

Imperial dynasty that ruled Vietnam from 1009 to 1225

Ruling dynasty of the Sultanate of Oman and Zanzibar

951–1199 Kurdish Muslim dynasty in Armenia and Azerbaijan

Second ruling dynasty of Magadha (413–345 BCE)