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George Akropolites
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Georgios
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Byzantine Empire
- Place of birth
- Constantinople
- Place of death
- Constantinople
- Occupation
- historian
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
- Student of
- Nikephoros Blemmydes
- Field of work
- history
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- date of birth
- 1217-00-00
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- student
- Gregory II of Constantinople
- date of death
- 1282-08-00
- writing language
- medieval Greek
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Encyclopedic overview
George Akropolites (Latinized as Acropolites or Acropolita; Greek: Γεώργιος Ἀκροπολίτης, Georgios Akropolites; 1217 or 1220 – 1282) was a Byzantine Greek historian and statesman born in Constantinople.
Life
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