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(h rmän´ ärs ny ´gäs) (KEY) , 1900–1999, Colombian historian and diplomat. A leading Latin American intellectual, he gained prominence as a jou...
1869–1928, Swedish geographer and explorer, nephew of Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskjöld. He headed an expedition to Patagonia (1895–97) and later expl...
(Cassius Dio Cocceianus) (d o k sh´ s) (KEY) , c.155–235?, Roman historian and administrator, b. Nicaea in Bithynia. He was a grandson of Dio Chrys...
(p mp ´n s m ´l ) (KEY) , fl. c.A.D. 50, Roman geographer, b. Spain. His De situ orbis, a description of the then known world, was published in Lat...
( ´d ärt züs) (KEY) , 1831–1914, Austrian geologist, b. London. He was a professor (1857–1901) at the Univ. of Vienna and served for more than ...
(Abu Jafar Muhammad ibn Jarir at-Tabari) (täbä´r ) (KEY) , c.839–c.923, Arab historian and commentator. The name Tabari was given him because he ...