Middle East and North Africa
- Aq Qoyunlu (White Sheep Turkomans) - Y‘aqub ibn Uzun Hasan (1470–1492)
- Kingdom of Cyprus - Catherine Cornaro (1474–1489)
- Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt - Qait Bay (1468–1496)
- Kingdom of Fez - Abu Zakariya Muhammad al-Saih al-Mahdi (1472–1504)
- Sultanate of Herat - Husayn Bayqarah (1470–1506)
- Sultanate of Oman - Omar ibn al Khattab (1451–1490)
- Sultanate of Samarkand - Ahmad (1469–1494)
- Sistan - Shams al-Din Muhammad, Mihrabanid malik (1480–1495)
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