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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“Death cut the strings that gave me life,
And handed me to Sorrow,
The only kind of middle wife
My folks could beg or borrow.”
—Countee Cullen (1903–1946)
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—Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)
“Ah! on Thanksgiving day, when from East and from West,
From North and from South, come the pilgrim and guest,
When the gray-haired New Englander sees round his board
The old broken links of affection restored,
When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more,
And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before.
What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye?
What calls back the past, like the rich Pumpkin pie?”
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“Are you there, Africa with the bulging chest and oblong thigh? Sulking Africa, wrought of iron, in the fire, Africa of the millions of royal slaves, deported Africa, drifting continent, are you there? Slowly you vanish, you withdraw into the past, into the tales of castaways, colonial museums, the works of scholars.”
—Jean Genet (1910–1986)