Asia
- China (Ming Dynasty) - Zhengde Emperor (1505–1521)
- Cochin - Unniraman Koyikal II, King of Cochin (1503-1537)
- Japan (Sengoku period)
- Monarch - Emperor Go-Kashiwabara (1500–1526)
- Shogun (Ashikaga) - Ashikaga Yoshitane (1508–1521)
- Korea (Joseon Dynasty) - Jungjong (1506–1544)
- Ryūkyū Kingdom - Shō Shin (1477–1526)
- Vijayanagara Empire - Krishnadeva Raya (1509–1529)
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Famous quotes containing the word asia:
“Incarnate devil in a talking snake,
The central plains of Asia in his garden,
In shaping-time the circle stung awake,
In shapes of sin forked out the bearded apple....”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“I believe that the fundamental proposition is that we must recognize that the hostilities in Europe, in Africa, and in Asia are all parts of a single world conflict. We must, consequently, recognize that our interests are menaced both in Europe and in the Far East.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“I have no doubt that they lived pretty much the same sort of life in the Homeric age, for men have always thought more of eating than of fighting; then, as now, their minds ran chiefly on the “hot bread and sweet cakes;” and the fur and lumber trade is an old story to Asia and Europe.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)