Juana Azurduy de Padilla (1780 or 1781 – 1862) was a South American revolutionary, active in the revolution in the region of “Alto Peru” or Upper Peru, present-day Bolivia. The Chuquisaca Revolution Of half Spanish and half indigenous origin, Juana Azurduy de Padilla was born on July 12, 1780 or 1
Maria Reiche-Grosse Neumann or Maria Reiche She was born in Dresden (a German city that was also the birthplace of Max Uhle) on May 15, 1903. She studied at the Polytechnic School in her hometown and at the University of Hamburg, graduating in Mathematics. She arrived in Peru in 1932 as a governess
Sayyida al-Hurrah bint Ali ibn Rashid , known as Sayyida al Hurra (1485 – 1542), was a queen of the city of Tetouan (Morocco), who reigned for thirty years, fought against the Portuguese and resorted to piracy. “The free” Sayyida al-Hurra was born around 1485 (around the year 890 of the Muslim ca
Daughter of Caribert, count of Laon, she married Pépin le Bref and thus became queen of the Franks. She is the mother of Charlemagne and Carloman. At first just Pepins concubine, ambitious, Berthe managed to get him to marry him in 749.