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Hiero I of Syracuse

600 BC - 466 BC

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Hieron I (Greek: Ἱέρων Α΄; usually Latinized Hiero) was the son of Deinomenes, the brother of Gelon and tyrant of Syracuse in Sicily, from 478 to 467 BC. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hiero I of Syracuse has received more than 95,359 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Hiero I of Syracuse is the 3,532nd most popular politician (down from 2,922nd in 2019), the 1,115th most popular biography from Italy (down from 996th in 2019) and the 248th most popular Italian Politician.

Hiero I of Syracuse is most famous for his victory over the Carthaginian navy in the Battle of the Aegates Islands.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Hiero I of Syracuse ranks 3,532 out of 15,577Before him are Bagoas, Edmund the Martyr, Charles III, Duke of Lorraine, Sigurd Ring, Mircea II of Wallachia, and Louis, Count of Évreux. After him are Blaise Compaoré, Maria Leopoldine of Austria, Phocion, Imagawa Yoshimoto, Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, and Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 600 BC, Hiero I of Syracuse ranks 35Before him are Lars Porsena, Demaratus, Neriglissar, Horatius Cocles, Artaphernes, and Hipparchus. After him are Aristagoras, Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus, Nahum, Gelon, Agrippa Menenius Lanatus, and Callimachus. Among people deceased in 466 BC, Hiero I of Syracuse ranks 1

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Hiero I of Syracuse ranks 1,115 out of 4,668Before him are Lucius Accius (-170), Drusus Julius Caesar (-13), Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares (1587), Bianca Cappello (1548), Giovanni Battista Re (1934), and Mary of Modena (1658). After him are Bettino Craxi (1934), William III of Sicily (1185), Federico Barocci (1535), Princess Mafalda of Savoy (1902), Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755), and Tarpeia (-800).

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