Middle East and North Africa
- Morocco – Al-Mostadi, Sultan of Morocco (1738–1740)
- Persia – Nader Shah, Shah of Persia (1736–1747)
- Tunis – Ali I, Bey of Tunis (1735–1756)
Read more about this topic: List Of State Leaders In 1739
Famous quotes containing the words middle east, middle, east, north and/or africa:
“It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.”
—Aneurin Bevan (1897–1960)
“For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application—why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.”
—Howard Nemerov (1920–1991)
“The beds i’ th’ East are soft.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“When the Somalians were merely another hungry third world people, we sent them guns. Now that they are falling down dead from starvation, we send them troops. Some may see in this a tidy metaphor for the entire relationship between north and south. But it would make a whole lot more sense nutritionally—as well as providing infinitely more vivid viewing—if the Somalians could be persuaded to eat the troops.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
“America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)