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Shammuramat (Akkadian: Sammu-rāmat or Sammu-ramāt), [4] [c] also known as Sammuramat or Shamiram and Semiramis, [5] was a powerful queen of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.Beginning her career as the primary consort [d] of the king Shamshi-Adad V (r.
Senegal's economic and political capital is Dakar. Senegal is the westernmost country in the mainland of the Old World, or Afro-Eurasia. [14] It owes its name to the Senegal River, which borders it to the east and north. [15] The climate is typically Sahelian, though there is a rainy season. Senegal covers a land area of almost 197,000 square ...
Senegal's inaugural first lady, Colette Hubert Senghor, wife of President Léopold Sédar Senghor, was from France. [1] [2] The country's second first lady, Elizabeth Diouf, is the daughter of a Lebanese father and a Senegalese mother. [1] Like Colette Senghor, Viviane Wade, Senegal's third first lady, is an ethnic French woman from France. [1]
They married on 9 September 1946 and divorced in 1955. They had two sons, Francis in 1947 and Guy in 1948. His second wife, Colette Hubert [fr] (20 November 1925 – 18 November 2019), [49] who was from France, became Senegal's first First Lady upon independence in 1960. Senghor had three sons between his two marriages. [48]
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also: People: By gender: Women: By nationality: Senegalese This category exists only as a container for other categories of Senegalese women . Articles on individual women should not be added directly to this category, but may be added to an appropriate sub-category if it exists.
She married when she was fourteen. She was kidnapped by Bokassa to become his third wife. He would later marry fourteen other women. [1] She was involved in some way in 1977 when her husband's fall from power began. He issued a decree to say that every child attending school in his empire should wear a school uniform.
Viviane Wade (née Vert; born 13 September 1932) is a French-born Senegalese public figure who served as First Lady of Senegal from 2000 to 2012, as the wife of President Abdoulaye Wade. Early life [ edit ]