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There were many kingdoms and empires in all regions of the continent of Africa throughout history. A kingdom is a state with a king or queen as its head. [1] An empire is a political unit made up of several territories, military outposts, and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant centre and subordinate peripheries".
Horn of Africa: Ismaïl Omar Guelleh: President of Djibouti: 8 May 1999 Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed: Prime Minister of Djibouti: 1 April 2013 Egypt: Northeast Africa [b] Abdel Fattah el-Sisi: President of Egypt: 8 June 2014 Mostafa Madbouly: Prime Minister of Egypt: 14 June 2018 Iraq: Fertile Crescent: Abdul Latif Rashid: President of Iraq: 13 ...
South Africa: Emmanouil Tsouderos: Prime Minister of Greece Greece: 1941–1944 Egypt United Kingdom: Sofoklis Venizelos: Prime Minister of Greece Greece: 1944 Egypt: Georgios Papandreou: 1944–1945 Arnulfo Arias Madrid: President of Panama Panama: 1941–1945, 1951–1960 Latin America: 1968–1978, 1984–1988† United States: Moncef Bey ...
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For a list of heads of state taking dates of independence into account, see List of heads of state by diplomatic precedence. Acting presidents are included in this list, but if a leader has non-consecutive terms, only the current period of service is listed. States where head of state differs from head of government are mainly parliamentary ...
The following are the 25 longest-reigning monarchs of states who were internationally recognised as sovereign for most or all of their reign. Byzantine emperors Constantine VIII and Basil II, reigning for 66 years in total (962–1028) and for 65 years in total (960–1025) respectively, are not included, because for part of those periods they reigned only nominally as junior co-emperors ...
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A map of Africa showing the continent's political systems: three monarchies (in red) and republics (in blue). Monarchy was the prevalent form of government in the history of Africa, where self-governing states, territories, or nations existed in which supreme power resided with an individual who was recognized as the head of state. [1]