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Anna Komnene

1083 - 1153

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Anna Komnene (Greek: Ἄννα Κομνηνή, romanized: Ánna Komnēnḗ; 1 December 1083 – 1153), commonly Latinized as Anna Comnena, was a Byzantine Greek princess and historian. She is the author of the Alexiad, an account of the reign of her father, Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos. Her work constitutes the most important primary source of Byzantine history of the late 11th and early 12th centuries, as well as of the early Crusades. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anna Komnene has received more than 636,556 page views. Her biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia. Anna Komnene is the 269th most popular writer (down from 215th in 2019), the 106th most popular biography from Türkiye (down from 95th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Turkish Writer.

Anna Komnene was a Byzantine princess who lived from 1083-1148. She was the daughter of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos and Empress Irene Doukaina. Anna is most famous for her writings, which include the Alexiad, a history of her father's reign.

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Among writers, Anna Komnene ranks 269 out of 7,302. Before her are François de La Rochefoucauld, Jami, Amos Oz, Salman Rushdie, Primo Levi, and Arthur Miller. After her are Walt Whitman, Bartolomé de las Casas, Alcaeus of Mytilene, Jordanes, Marguerite Duras, and Henrik Pontoppidan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1083, Anna Komnene ranks 1. After her are Charles I, Count of Flanders, Ali ibn Yusuf, Viacheslav I of Kiev, Qadi Iyad, Uroš I, Grand Prince of Serbia, and William II, Count of Nevers. Among people deceased in 1153, Anna Komnene ranks 3. Before her are Bernard of Clairvaux, and Pope Eugene III. After her are David I of Scotland, Bernard de Tremelay, Al-Shahrastani, Gampopa, and Eustace IV, Count of Boulogne.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Anna Komnene ranks 106 out of 1,347. Before her are Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca (1853), İsmet İnönü (1884), Cassius Dio (155), Andromache (null), Antinous (111), and Nikephoros I (760). After her are Bartholomew I of Constantinople (1940), Dionysius of Halicarnassus (-60), Zeno (425), Eudoxus of Cnidus (-408), Gregory of Nyssa (335), and Abdullah Öcalan (1949).

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Among WRITERS In Türkiye

Among writers born in Türkiye, Anna Komnene ranks 6. Before her are Hesiod (-800), Lucian (120), Orhan Pamuk (1952), Constantine VII (905), and Anacreon (-570). After her are Dionysius of Halicarnassus (-60), Yunus Emre (1240), Ammianus Marcellinus (330), Giorgos Seferis (1900), Aratus (-315), and Theodore the Studite (759).

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