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Also Known As Lucius Cornelius Alexander Polyhistor
Born c.105 BCE • Miletus
Died c.35 BCE
Subjects Of Study Jew • universal history
al-Masʿūdī
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Dio Cassius
Roman historian
Al-Bīrūnī, Afghan commemorative stamp, 1973.
al-Bīrūnī
Persian scholar and scientist
Joseph Jacobs
English scholar
Josephus before Vespasian
Flavius Josephus
Jewish priest, scholar, and historian
Strabo
Strabo
Greek geographer and historian
Simon Markovich Dubnow
Russian historian
Neşri
Ottoman historian
Abraham Zevi Idelsohn
Russian composer
Ephorus
Greek historian
Hesychius Of Miletus
Byzantine historian
Kâtip Çelebi
Turkish historian
Ahmed Dede Müneccimbaşı
Ottoman writer
Friedrich Schlosser
German historian
Diodorus Siculus
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François Laurent
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Ibn al-Athīr
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Wei Yuan
Chinese historian
al-Hamdānī
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Ibn Miskawayh
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