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Flourished c.501 - c.550
Title / Office king (530-534), Africa
Bust of Vespasian, found at Ostia; in the Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome.
Vespasian
Roman emperor
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Narses
Syrian theologian
Detail from Charles Le Brun's painting showing Alexander the Great in profile, wearing a gold helmet with white plumes and a blue cloak, with soldiers in the background.
Alexander the Great
king of Macedonia
Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan
Mongolian warrior-ruler
Philip II
Philip II
king of Macedonia
Alexander I
Alexander I
emperor of Russia
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Scipio Africanus the Younger
Roman general
Bronze equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius with his right arm raised, seated on a horse, at Piazza del Campidoglio in Rome, Italy.
Marcus Aurelius
emperor of Rome
Trajan
Trajan
Roman emperor
Heraclius
Heraclius
Byzantine emperor
Coin depicting Ptolemy I Soter
Ptolemy I Soter
Macedonian king of Egypt
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Mehmed II
Ottoman sultan
Seleucid king of the Hellenistic Syrian Empire
Antiochus III the Great
Seleucid king
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Antiochus IV Epiphanes
Seleucid king
Engraved portrait of William Wallace wearing a helmet with a bird crest and a patterned cloak fastened with a brooch.
William Wallace
Scottish hero
Attila
Attila
king of the Huns
Sulla
Sulla
Roman dictator
Seleucus I Nicator
Seleucus I Nicator
Seleucid ruler
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Nurhachi
Manchurian chieftain
Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd duke de Alba, oil painting by Sir Antony More, 1549; in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels.
Fernando Álvarez de Toledo y Pimentel, 3 duque de Alba
Spanish soldier and statesman

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