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Ioxamander I (20 March 1519 - 1565), commonly known as Ioxamander The Conqueror in the and Ioxamander The Magnificent in his realm, was the Azarkh of the Atouman Empire from 1519 to 1565. He is famously known in Europe for his various campaigns across North Africa and the Balkan peninsula, in which case would spur European scholars at the time to refer to the Atouman state as the "second Roman Empire".

Ioxamander succeeded his older brother as Azarkh in the midst of the Atouman-Isetium War, and begin his reign with a series of military campaigns against Pagan and Christian powers along the Mediterranean. Alexandria would fall in 1522, with Makkah falling the following year. During a period often referred to as "Absolute Carnage", Ioxamander would lead a brutal conquest of North Africa, inflicting mass genocide against the ethnic Pagans and expanding as far as Tlemcen. After these campaigns in Africa, Ioxamander would become a prominent monarch of 16th-century Europe, adopting the European monikor of "The Conqeueror" or "The Horseman". Coronated as "The Magnificent", Ioxamander presided over the apex of the Atouman Empire's economic, military and political power, excercising his influence in the overthrow of the Ahuric Empire in the 1530s and later defeating the Safaretid dynasty of Persia, although would be face his first career defeat in Elam in 1554.

Instrumental to the Atouman "golden age", Ioxamander was a profound painter and poet in his later life, and instituted a number of religious, judicial, legislative, educational, and taxation reform that would constitute the back-bone of Atouman domestic policy for nearly two centuries following. As a writer, Ioxamander would compose the "Ionia Trilogy" in the late 1550s before mounting an offensive against Eskosia in the 1560s. Ioxamander would suffer from a form of dementia during his later years, with him infamously dying upon delivery of news that the city of Eskos had fallen. He would be succeeded by his son, Khanidon.