biography
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (5th-c BC)
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| biography:
| Biblical queen, a foster-daughter of the Jew, Mordecai. According to the Book of Esther she was chosen by the Persian King Ahasuerus (possibly Xerxes I) as his wife in place of the disgraced Queen Vashti, and brought about the deliverance of her people. |
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