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Ammianus Marcellinus

330 - 395

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Ammianus Marcellinus, occasionally anglicised as Ammian (Greek: Αμμιανός Μαρκελλίνος; born c. 330, died c. 391 – 400), was a Roman soldier and historian who wrote the penultimate major historical account surviving from antiquity (preceding Procopius). Written in Latin and known as the Res gestae, his work chronicled the history of Rome from the accession of the Emperor Nerva in 96 to the death of Valens at the Battle of Adrianople in 378. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ammianus Marcellinus has received more than 543,194 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Ammianus Marcellinus is the 447th most popular writer (down from 387th in 2019), the 179th most popular biography from Türkiye and the 9th most popular Turkish Writer.

Ammianus Marcellinus was a fourth-century Roman historian who wrote a history of Rome from the death of Augustus in 14 AD to the death of Valens in 378 AD.

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Among writers, Ammianus Marcellinus ranks 447 out of 7,302. Before him are Giacomo Leopardi, Auguste Escoffier, Propertius, Rudaki, Fausto Cercignani, and Comte de Lautréamont. After him are Karl Barth, Gabriela Mistral, Susan Sontag, Salvatore Quasimodo, Boris Vian, and Wolfram von Eschenbach.

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Among people born in 330, Ammianus Marcellinus ranks 1. After him is Caesarius of Nazianzus. Among people deceased in 395, Ammianus Marcellinus ranks 3. Before him are Theodosius I, and Gregory of Nyssa. After him are Ausonius, Rufinus, and Macarius of Alexandria.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Ammianus Marcellinus ranks 179 out of 1,347. Before him are Bias of Priene (-600), Laban (-1900), Justin II (520), Constantine X Doukas (1006), Turgut Özal (1927), and Alexios I of Trebizond (1182). After him are Alexios IV Angelos (1182), Anthemius (420), Dorothea of Caesarea (279), Theodore I Laskaris (1174), Michael II (770), and Pulcheria (399).

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Among WRITERS In Türkiye

Among writers born in Türkiye, Ammianus Marcellinus ranks 9. Before him are Orhan Pamuk (1952), Constantine VII (905), Anacreon (-570), Anna Komnene (1083), Dionysius of Halicarnassus (-60), and Yunus Emre (1240). After him are Giorgos Seferis (1900), Aratus (-315), Theodore the Studite (759), André Chénier (1762), Novatian (220), and Dio Chrysostom (40).

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