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Ketevan the Martyr

1565 - 1624

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Ketevan the Martyr (Georgian: ქეთევან წამებული, romanized: ketevan ts'amebuli) (c. 1560 – September 13, 1624) was a queen consort of Kakheti, a kingdom in eastern Georgia. She was regent of Kakheti during the minority of her son Teimuraz I of Kakheti from 1605 to 1614. She was killed at Shiraz, Iran, after prolonged tortures by the Safavid suzerains of Kakheti for refusing to give up the Christian faith and convert to Islam. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2024). Ketevan the Martyr is the 11,048th most popular politician (down from 7,959th in 2024). (down from 1,477th in 2019)

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Among politicians, Ketevan the Martyr ranks 11,047 out of 19,576. Before her are Jeanine Áñez, Kim Hwang-sik, Reino Ragnar Lehto, Amanirenas, and Carl Jaenisch. After her are Vasco de Almeida e Costa, Saw Maung, Elizabeth Granowska, Karl Neukirch, Francisco Morales Bermúdez, Cersobleptes, and Kadan.

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Among people born in 1565, Ketevan the Martyr ranks 13. Before her are Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, Reza Abbasi, Hendrick de Keyser, Edward Fortunatus, Francesc Ribalta, and Peter Fourier. After her are Jacob de Gheyn II, Alessandro Tassoni, Nicolò Longobardo, and Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah. Among people deceased in 1624, Ketevan the Martyr ranks 9. Before her are Gevherhan Sultan, Dirck van Baburen, Ahmad Sirhindi, Henry II, Duke of Lorraine, Charles of Austria, Bishop of Wroclaw, and Fukushima Masanori. After her are Marco Antonio de Dominis, Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, Juan de Mariana, Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech, Sebastián Vizcaíno, and Francesco Contarini.

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