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Amanirenas
- Where
- Kush
- Culture
- Kush
- Lived
- ruled about 40-10 BCE
- Why they matter
- A one-eyed queen who fought Rome to a peace deal.
- Fate
- Kush stayed independent of Rome.
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Background
Amanirenas (also spelled Amanirena), was queen regnant of the Kingdom of Kush from mid to late 1st century BCE. She is known for invading Roman occupied Egypt and successfully negotiating with Roman emperor Augustus the end of Roman retaliation, thus retaining Kushite independence.
Her full title was Amnirense qore li kdwe li ("Ameniras, qore and kandake"). Meroitic, the indigenous language of the kingdom of Kush, remains undeciphered; however, inscriptions giving Queen Amanirenas the title of "qore" as well as "kandake" suggest that she was an individually ruling queen.
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