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Also Known As Basil Bulgaroctonus
Born 957 or 958
Died December 15, 1025
Title / Office emperor (976-1025), Byzantine Empire
Manuel I Comnenus
Manuel I Comnenus
Byzantine emperor
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Alexander the Great
king of Macedonia
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Charlemagne
Holy Roman emperor [747?–814]
Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan
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Philip II
Philip II
king of Macedonia
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Frederick I
Holy Roman emperor
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Vespasian
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Alexander II
Alexander II
emperor of Russia
Trajan
Trajan
Roman emperor
Qianlong
Qianlong
emperor of Qing dynasty
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Mehmed II
Ottoman sultan
Seleucid king of the Hellenistic Syrian Empire
Antiochus III the Great
Seleucid king
Seleucus I Nicator
Seleucus I Nicator
Seleucid ruler
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Maḥmūd
king of Ghazna
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Epaminondas
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Muḥammad ʿAlī
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Bayezid II
Ottoman sultan
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Köprülü Mehmed Paşa
Ottoman grand vizier
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Köprülü Fazıl Ahmed Paşa
Ottoman vizier
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Francesco Crispi
Italian statesman

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