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Nonnosus (Historian)

LC control no.no2022142337
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Personal name headingNonnosus (Historian)
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Variant(s)Nόnnosos (Historian)
Beginning date05
Associated countryByzantine Empire
Field of activityHistory Diplomacy
Profession or occupationAmbassadors Historians
Found inThe Persian wars, 2022: preliminary pages ([includes] a further Greek text, that of Nonnosus)
Wikipedia, viewed November 18, 2022 (Nonnosus (Greek: Νóννοσος, romanized: Nόnnosos) was an ambassador sent by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I to the king of the Axumites (in Ethiopia and parts of the Arabian Peninsula) around 530 CE ; he wrote an account of that visit, now lost, that was read and summarized by Byzantine patriarch Photius in Codex 3 of his Bibliotheca)