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Flourished	143 - 146 • Lydia • Turkey

Kazantzákis, Níkos

Níkos Kazantzákis

Greek writer

Map based on the geography of Hecataeus of Miletus.

Hecataeus of Miletus

Greek author

Yórgos Theotokás

Greek author

Charles Dudley Warner

American essayist

Jérôme Tharaud

French writer

Jean Tharaud

French writer

Ilya Ilf

Soviet humorist

Martin E. Johnson

American adventurer and photographer

Yevgeny Petrov

Soviet humorist

Mark Twain

Mark Twain

American writer

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

English author

D.H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

Marco Polo

Marco Polo

Italian explorer

Stendhal, oil painting by Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy; in the Bibliothèque Municipale de Grenoble, France.

Stendhal

French author

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

British author

Henry James

Henry James

American writer

Ibn Baṭṭūṭah

Ibn Battuta

Muslim explorer and writer

Helmuth von Moltke, 1871

Helmuth von Moltke

German general [1800–1891]

Sir Richard Burton

Sir Richard Burton

British scholar and explorer

André Gide, oil painting by P.A. Laurens, 1924; in the National Museum of Modern Art, Paris.

André Gide

French writer