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Also Known As Demetrios • Dimitrios Papadopoulos
Born 1914 • Istanbul • Turkey
Died October 2, 1991 (aged 77) • Istanbul • Turkey
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Leo III
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Timur
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Pope Innocent IV
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Michael VIII Palaeologus
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St. Gregory Palamas
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