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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
Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great
king of Macedonia
portrait of Charlemagne by Albrecht Dürer
Charlemagne
Holy Roman emperor [747?–814]
Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan
Mongol ruler
Philip II
Philip II
king of Macedonia
Frederick I during the Crusades
Frederick I
Holy Roman emperor
Bust of Vespasian, found at Ostia; in the Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome.
Vespasian
Roman emperor
Alexander II
Alexander II
emperor of Russia
Trajan
Trajan
Roman emperor
Qianlong
Qianlong
emperor of Qing dynasty
Mehmed II
Ottoman sultan
Seleucid king of the Hellenistic Syrian Empire
Antiochus III the Great
Seleucid king
Seleucus I Nicator
Seleucid ruler
Maḥmūd
king of Ghazna
Epaminondas
Greek statesman
Muḥammad ʿAlī
Muḥammad ʿAlī
pasha and viceroy of Egypt
Bayezid II
Ottoman sultan
Köprülü Mehmed Paşa
Ottoman grand vizier
Köprülü Fazıl Ahmed Paşa
Ottoman vizier
Francesco Crispi
Italian statesman

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