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Female Heroes of Asia	Female Heroes from the Time of the Crusades	Recent Women Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize
Empress Wu Zetian China (Tang Dynasty)	Eleanor of Aquitaine Queen of France	Wangari Maahtai Kenya, 2004
Murasaki Shikibu (Lady Murasaki) Japan (Heian Period)	Shagrat al-Durr Sultan of Egypt	Shirin Ebadi Iran, 2003
Queen Sondok (or Sonduk) Korea (Silla Dynasty)	Melisende Queen of Jerusalem	Rigoberta Menchú Guatemala, 1992
The Trung Sisters Vietnam (ca. 40 C. E.)	Anna Comnena Byzantine Historian	Daw Aung San Suu Kyi Burma, 1991
Sorghaghtani Beki Mongolia (Genghis Khan)	Rulers	List of Women Nobel Prize Winners
Mirabai India (1498?-1546 C.E.)	Great Women Rulers! 19 Women Who Ruled	Bertha von Suttner First Winner 1904
Nur Jahan India (1577-1645 C.E.)	More Women Rulers Nominated By Our Site Visitors	Movements Linking Present to Past
Three Transforming Poets Iran (13th, 19th, 20th Centuries)	Notable Women in the year 1000 C.E.
	Empress Adelaide Ottonian Empire