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Also Known As Jonathan Maccabaeus • Jonathan Maccabeus • Apphus
Died 143 BCE or 142 BCE
House / Dynasty Maccabees
Notable Family Members father Mattathias • brother Judas Maccabeus
John Hyrcanus I
king of Judaea
Judas Maccabeus
Jewish leader
Mattathias
Jewish priest
Antiochus IV Epiphanes
Seleucid king
Amos
Amos
Hebrew prophet
John Hyrcanus II
king of Judaea
Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell
English statesman
Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky
Russian revolutionary
William III
William III
king of England, Scotland, and Ireland
Hermann Göring
Hermann Göring
German minister
An Lushan
Chinese general
Aurelian
Aurelian
Roman emperor
Stenka Razin, detail of an engraving from “A Relation Concerning the Particulars of the Rebellion Lately Raised in Muscovy by Stenka Razin” (London, 1672)
Stenka Razin
Cossack leader
Moshe Dayan.
Moshe Dayan
Israeli statesman
Artaxerxes II
king of Persia
Mengistu Haile Mariam
president of Ethiopia
James Butler, 1st duke of Ormonde
James Butler, 12th earl and 1st duke of Ormonde
Irish noble
Frederick Herman, duke of Schomberg
German soldier
Joubert, Petrus Jacobus
Petrus Jacobus Joubert
South African politician
Xiang Yu
Chinese rebel leader