Leonard of Chios (Greek: Λεονάρδος ο Χίος; Italian: Leonardo di Chio) was a Greek scholar of the Dominican Order and Latin Archbishop of Mytilene, best...
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Chios (/ˈkaɪ.ɒs, ˈkaɪ.oʊs, ˈkiː-/; Greek: Χίος, romanized: Chíos [ˈçi.os] , traditionally known as Scio in English) is the fifth largest Greek island,...
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conductor and composer Leonard Burton (born 1964), American football player Leonard of Chios (died 1458), Catholic archbishop Leonard Cohen (1934–2016), Canadian...
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Theophilos Palaiologos (category Byzantine people of the Byzantine–Ottoman wars)
Leonard of Chios says of him that Theophilus was 'of noble linage and deep scholarship'. The Greek historian and near contemporary of the fall of Constantinople...
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successful pillaging by the Ottoman invaders. Leonard of Chios made accounts of the atrocities that followed the fall of Constantinople stated the Ottoman invaders...
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Constantine XI Palaiologos (redirect from Constantine XI of the Byzantine Empire)
Isidore of Kiev, arrived at Constantinople together with the Latin Archbishop of Mytilene, Leonard of Chios. With them, they brought a small force of 200...
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Galata (category Quarters and suburbs of Constantinople)
Pasha, not the Sultan. One eyewitness, Leonard of Chios, describes the flight of Christians from the city: "Those of them who did not manage to board their...
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Johannes Grant (category Year of birth unknown)
Grandt is an Austrian advisor who rediscovers the secret to Greek fire. Leonard of Chios: "Johannis Grandi Alemani", where Grandi can also mean "the great"...
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Nicolò Barbaro (category Physicians from the Republic of Venice)
J.R. New York: Exposition. p. 65. Leonard of Chios (1972). 'Account of the Fall of Constantinople', in The Siege of Constantinople: Seven Contemporary...
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Constantine Lascaris (1434–1501), University of Messina Janus Lascaris or Rhyndacenus (c. 1445 – 1535), Rome Leonard of Chios (c. 1395/96 – c. 1458), Greek-born...
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Leon I of Abkhazia Leon II of Abkhazia Leonard of Chios Leonardo I Tocco Leonardo II Tocco Leonardo III Tocco Leonid dynasty Leontia (daughter of Leo I)...
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Thomas the Apostle (redirect from Feast of St Thomas)
on the Greek island of Patmos. Ortona's three galleys reached the island of Chios in 1258, led by General Leone Acciaiuoli. Chios was considered the island...
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Euclid (redirect from Euclid of Alexandria)
combination with a synthesis of theories from earlier Greek mathematicians, including Eudoxus of Cnidus, Hippocrates of Chios, Thales and Theaetetus. With...
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Hecatoncheires (category Children of Gaia)
fifth-century BC poet Ion of Chios, who referring to the Homeric story of the Olympians' revolt against Zeus, said that Aegaeon was the son of Thalassa (Sea) and...
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This is a list of fictional countries from published works of fiction (books, films, television series, games, etc.). Fictional works describe all the...
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rhetorician Theodotus of Chios were also guardians of the Egyptian king. When Ptolemy and Cleopatra were elevated to the status of senior rulers, Pothinus...
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Eratosthenes (redirect from Erastothenes of Cyrene)
Zeno of Citium, in philosophical lectures on living a virtuous life. He then studied under Aristo of Chios, who led a more cynical school of philosophy...
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A list of Western films released in the 1970s. List of Western television series "Blindman". IMDb. 10 May 1972. "Diamante Lobo". IMDb....
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Ionic Greek (category Dialects of languages with ISO 639-3 code)
the end of Archaic Greece and early Classical Greece in the 5th century BC, the central west coast of Asia Minor, along with the islands of Chios and Samos...
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Leo Allatius (category Writers from Chios)
scholar, theologian, and keeper of the Vatican library. Leo Allatius was a Greek, born on the island of Chios (then part of the Ottoman Empire and known...
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This is a list of episodes for The High Chaparral, a Western television series which aired on NBC from 1967 to 1971. This series consists of 98 one-hour...
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Cleopatra (redirect from Cleopatra VII of Egypt)
administrator of his properties. Others involved in the cabal against Cleopatra included Achillas, a prominent military commander, and Theodotus of Chios, another...
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century (Athens, Cyclades, Chios, Crete). Jewish communities also existed in the country, those arriving after the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain (1492)...
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outstanding contributions in Biology. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes which were established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895. Every year, the Nobel...
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Phocaea (category Geography of İzmir Province)
Persian rule, the Phocaeans abandoned their city. Some may have fled to Chios, others to their colonies on Corsica and elsewhere in the Mediterranean...
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Christopher Columbus (redirect from Perceptions of Columbus)
wealthy Spinola, Centurione, and Di Negro families of Genoa. Later, he made a trip to the Greek island Chios in the Aegean Sea, then ruled by Genoa. In May...
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played down. The Ottoman massacres at Chios in 1822 inspired Eugène Delacroix's famous painting Massacre of Chios; other philhellenic works by Delacroix...
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Mona Lisa (category Portraits of women)
Léonard". Revue de l'Art (in French). 76 (1): 68–72. doi:10.3406/rvart.1999.348476. Classics, Delphi; Russell, Peter (7 April 2017). The History of Art...
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Cleopatra (1963 film) (category Depictions of Augustus on film)
Aslan as Pothinus Martin Benson as Ramese Herbert Berghof as Theodotus of Chios John Cairney as Phoebus Jacqui Chan as Lotus Isabelle Cooley as Charmian...
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co-operative enterprise financed by nine eastern Greek cities: Four Ionian: Chios, Klazomenai, Teos and Phocaea; Four Dorian: Rhodes, Halicarnassus, Knidos...
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