The second-longest reigning monarch in the world might possibly be King Taejo of Goguryo. He reined from 53 CE to 146 CE – that’s 93 years!
Unfortunately, the only sources are two Korean histories. They contradict a Chinese history which mentions King Taejo’s reign. Most historical sources will contradict each other, at some point. More importantly, the Korean histories also say King Taejo lived to be 118, which in the first century CE was realistically impossible! So maybe King Taejo was not the second-longest reigning monarch. If we follow the Chinese history, he reigned 68 years. Quite respectable. And that would still put him in the top 30 longest-reining monarchs.
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