Cosmas Indicopleustes

550–600

6th-century Greek traveller and merchant

astronomer · writer · geographer

Born in Alexandria

Contemporaries

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• Muhammad (571–632)
• Abu Bakr (573–634)
• Justinian I (482–565)
• Gregory I (540–604)
• Uthman ibn Affan (574–656)
• Khadija bint Khuwaylid (557–619)
• Umar ibn Al-Khattāb (586–644)
• Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib (599–661)

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