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Empress Jitō

645 - 703

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Empress Jitō (持統天皇, Jitō-tennō, 645 – 13 January 703) was the 41st monarch of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. Jitō's reign spanned the years from 686 through 697. In the history of Japan, Jitō was the third of eight women to take on the role of empress regnant. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Empress Jitō has received more than 287,748 page views. Her biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Empress Jitō is the 3,737th most popular politician (up from 3,769th in 2019), the 124th most popular biography from Saudi Arabia (down from 109th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular Saudi Arabian Politician.

Empress Jitō is most famous for the reforms she enacted during her reign, which were aimed at improving the lives of women and people in poverty.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Empress Jitō ranks 3,737 out of 19,576. Before her are Shapur III, Abu Yaqub Yusuf, William II, Duke of Bavaria, Heungseon Daewongun, Antiochus XI Epiphanes, and Michal. After her are Perdiccas III of Macedon, Mohammed Alim Khan, Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville, Ildibad, Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, and Emperor Xiaozong of Song.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 645, Empress Jitō ranks 1. After her are Perctarit, and Ecgfrith of Northumbria. Among people deceased in 703, Empress Jitō ranks 1. After her is Thrasimund I of Spoleto.

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In Saudi Arabia

Among people born in Saudi Arabia, Empress Jitō ranks 124 out of 354. Before her are Imru' al-Qais (501), Abbas I of Egypt (1816), Ikrima ibn Abi Jahl (598), Sa'd ibn Mu'adh (590), 'Abd Allah ibn 'Amr ibn al-'As (616), and Waraqah ibn Nawfal (null). After her are Hassan ibn Thabit (554), Abd Manaf ibn Qusai (430), Al-Waleed bin Talal (1955), Al-Waqidi (747), Antarah ibn Shaddad (525), and Isma'il ibn Ja'far (721).

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Among POLITICIANS In Saudi Arabia

Among politicians born in Saudi Arabia, Empress Jitō ranks 42. Before her are Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (1928), Ghazi of Iraq (1912), Abd-Allah ibn Ubayy (600), Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud (1933), Abbas I of Egypt (1816), and Sa'd ibn Mu'adh (590). After her are Al-Mughira (600), Idris I of Morocco (743), Abdul-Aziz ibn Abdullah Al ash-Sheikh (1943), Muqrin bin Abdulaziz (1945), Abdul Rahman bin Faisal Al Saud (1850), and Faisal bin Musaid Al Saud (1944).

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