Cosmas Indicopleustes
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photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: Byzantine Empire
languages spoken, written or signed: Ancient Greek
occupation: explorer, astronomer, writer, geographer
student of: Aba I
Cosmas Indicopleustes (Koinē Greek: Κοσμᾶς Ἰνδικοπλεύστης, lit. 'Cosmas who sailed to India'; also known as Cosmas the Monk) was a merchant and later hermit from Alexandria in Egypt. He was a 6th-century traveller who made several voyages to India during the reign of emperor Justinian. His work Christian Topography contained some of the earliest and most famous world maps. Cosmas was a pupil of the East Syriac Patriarch Aba I and was himself a follower of the Church of the East. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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