Middle East and North Africa
- Aydinids - Muhammad Bey, Seljuq emir of Aydin (1333–1341)
- Cilicia (Hethum Dynasty) - Leo V, King of Cilicia (1320–1341)
- Kingdom of Cyprus - Hugh IV (1324–1359)
- Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt - Al-Nasir Muhammad (1309–1340)
- Hama (in Asia) (Ayyubid dynasty) - Muhammad III of Hama (1331–1341/1342)
- Golden Horde - Uzbeg Khan (1313–1341)
- Ottoman Empire - Orhan I, Ottoman Bey (1326–1359)
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“The blood of Abraham, God’s father of the chosen, still flows in the veins of Arab, Jew, and Christian, and too much of it has been spilled in grasping for the inheritance of the revered patriarch in the Middle East. The spilled blood in the Holy Land still cries out to God—an anguished cry for peace.”
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)
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—Bill Bryson (b. 1951)
“We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. Maugre all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)