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Al-Baladhuri
ʾAḥmad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Jābir al-Balādhurī (; died 892 or 893) was a 9th-century Muslim historian. One of the eminent West Asian historians of his age, he spent most of his life in Baghdad and enjoyed great influence at the court of the caliph al-Mutawakkil. He travelled in Syria and Iraq, compiling information for his major works.
Ibn Khordadbeh
Persian geographer and official (died 913)
Ono no Komachi
Japanese poet
Álmos, Grand Prince of the Magyars
Álmos (), also Almos or Almus ( 820 – 895), was—according to the uniform account of Hungarian chronicles—the first head of the "loose federation" of the Hungarian tribes from around 850. Whether he was the sacred ruler (kende) of the Hungarians or their military leader (gyula) is subject to scholarly debate. According to Constantine Porphyrogenitus, he accepted the Khazar khagan's suzerainty in the first decade of his reign, but the Hungarians acted independently of the Khazars from around 860. The 14th-century Illuminated Chronicle narrates that he was murdered in Transylvania at the beginnin
Al-Nasa'i
Al-Nasāʾī (215 – 303 AH; 830 – 915 CE), full name Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Aḥmad ibn Shuʿayb ibn ʿAlī ibn Sinān ibn Baḥr ibn Dīnar al-Khurasānī al-Nasāʾī (), was a noted collector of hadith (sayings of Muhammad), from the city of Nasa (early Khorasan and present day Turkmenistan), and the author of "As-Sunan", one of the six canonical hadith collections recognized by Sunni Muslims. From his "As-Sunan al-Kubra (The Large Sunan)" he wrote an abridged version, "Al-Mujtaba" or Sunan al-Sughra (The Concise Sunan). Of the fifteen books he is known to have written, six treat the science of hadīth
Ibn Qutaybah
Persian jurist and scholar (c.828-889)
Ordoño I of Asturias
King of Asturias
Ashot I of Armenia
Armenian king
Kocel
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Buhturi
Al-Walīd ibn Ubaidillah Al-Buḥturī () (821–97 AD; 206–84 AH) was an Arab poet born at Manbij in Islamic Syria, between Aleppo and the Euphrates. Like Abū Tammām (), he was of the tribe of Tayy, from the Buhturids.
Gisela
Frankish noble, daughter of Louis the Pious
Adalbert I, Margrave of Tuscany
9th Century Margrave of Tuscany
Anandavardhana
Ānandavardhana (c. 820 – 890 CE) was a Kashmiri court poet and literary critic, honored with the title of Rajanak during King Avantivarman's reign. Anandavardhana authored the Dhvanyāloka, or A Light on Suggestion (dhvani), a work articulating the philosophy of "aesthetic suggestion" (dhvani, vyañjanā).
Hucbert
Hucbert (also spelled Hubert or Hugbert; – 864 or 866) was a Frankish nobleman and ecclesiastical official of the Bosonid dynasty. He served as Count of Valois, Duke of Transjurane Burgundy, and '''lay abbot of Saint Maurice's Abbey''' in Agaunum. He is chiefly remembered for his role in the political and military defense of his sister, Queen Teutberga, during her contested marriage to King Lothair II of Lotharingia.
Al-Mubarrad
Al-Mubarrad () (al-Mobarrad), or Abū al-‘Abbās Muḥammad ibn Yazīd (c. 826c. 898), was a native of Baṣrah. He was a philologist, biographer and a leading grammarian of the School of Basra, a rival to the School of Kufa. In 860 he was called to the court of the Abbasid caliph al-Mutawakkil at Samarra. When the caliph was killed the following year, he went to Baghdād, and taught there until his death.
Adelheid van Tours
Countess of Anjou and Blois (c.820–c.866)
Muhammad ibn Abdallah ibn Tahir
Abbasid governor and police chief of Baghdad from 851 to 867
Landulf II of Capua
Count of Capua, 863-879
Godfrid Haraldsson
Son of Danish king
Ibn Abi Asim
writer
Elias of Enna
Italian saint
Olaf the White
Viking sea-king
Zheng Tian
Chinese chancellor
Grimbald
Benedictine monk of the Abbey of Saint Bertin
Doseon
Tosŏn Kuksa (; 826-898), also known as '''Yogong Sŏnsa, Yŏn'gi Tosŏn''', was a Korean Buddhist monk who lived during the decline of the Silla Dynasty, just prior to the foundation of the Goryeo Dynasty. At least 70 temples, monasteries and hermitages are claimed to have been founded either under Tosŏn's supervision and direction, or by orders of Taejo of Goryeo following Tosŏn's recommendations.
Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Abi Du'ad
abbasid acting Chief Judge (848–850)