MILITARY PERSONNEL

Nicanor

400 BC - 310 BC

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Nicanor (; Greek: Nικάνωρ Nīkā́nōr) was a Macedonian officer of distinction who served as satrap of Media under Antigonus (possibly Nicanor of Stageira, who served under Alexander the Great). In 321 BCE, at the division of the provinces, after the death of the regent Perdiccas, he gained the position of satrap of Cappadocia. He attached himself to the party of Antigonus I Monophthalmus, whom he accompanied in the war against Eumenes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicanor has received more than 52,500 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Nicanor is the 1,102nd most popular military personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Nicanor ranks 1,102 out of 2,058Before him are FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, Alfred Wünnenberg, Archduke Karl Albrecht of Austria, Arthur Percival, Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz, and David Petraeus. After him are Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, Katō Yoshiaki, Aleksandr Dvornikov, Quintus Labienus, Karl Fritzsch, and François Séverin Marceau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 400 BC, Nicanor ranks 60Before him are Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus, Publius Decius Mus, Ada of Caria, Philip of Opus, Deidamia I of Epirus, and Lais of Hyccara. After him are Hecataeus of Abdera, Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus, Khabash, Cleitarchus, Neoptolemus, and Cleomenes of Naucratis. Among people deceased in 310 BC, Nicanor ranks 7Before him are Roxana, Pytheas, Phryne, Vyasa, Bian Que, and Hui Shi. After him is Pharnabazus III.

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