Middle East
- Abbasid Caliphate - Al-Mu'tamid, Caliph (870–892)
- Byzantine Empire - Basil I the Macedonian (Βασίλειος Α'), (867–886)
- Sistan - Ya'qub bin Laith as-Saffar, Saffarid Emir of Sistan (867–879)
- Transoxiana - Nasr I ibn Ahmad, Samanid Emir of Transoxiana (864–892)
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