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The '''Queen of Sheba''', referred to in the [[Bible]] books of 1 [[Books of Kings|Kings]] and 2 [[Chronicles]], the [[Qur'an]], and [[Ethiopia]]n history, was the ruler of [[Sheba]], an ancient kingdom which modern [[archeology]] speculates was located in present-day [[Ethiopia]] or [[Yemen]] . Unnamed in the biblical text, she is called '''Makeda''' (not this way/not thus) in the Ethiopian tradition, and in Islamic tradition her name is '''Bilqis'''. Alternative names given for her have been '''Nikaule''' or '''Nicaula'''.