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Sostratus of Cnidus

290 BC - 260 BC

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Sostratus of Cnidus (; Ancient Greek: Σώστρατος ὁ Κνίδος; born 3rd century BC) was a Greek architect and engineer. He is said to have designed the lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (c. 280 BC), on the island of Pharos off Alexandria, Egypt. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sostratus of Cnidus has received more than 43,220 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Sostratus of Cnidus is the 89th most popular architect (down from 80th in 2019), the 302nd most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 315th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Turkish Architect.

Sostratus of Cnidus was a man who was a military engineer and architect. He was the architect of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, which is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Sostratus of Cnidus ranks 89 out of 518Before him are Balthasar Neumann, Claude Perrault, Mario Botta, Frei Otto, Gottfried Semper, and Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt. After him are Bartolomeo Ammannati, Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Mnesikles, Minoru Yamasaki, and Arata Isozaki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 290 BC, Sostratus of Cnidus ranks 3Before him are Zhang Liang, and Menippus. After him are Teuta, Phriapatius, Antigonus of Carystus, Titus Manlius Torquatus, Anyte of Tegea, and Lucius Caecilius Metellus. Among people deceased in 260 BC, Sostratus of Cnidus ranks 3Before him are Theocritus, and Menippus. After him are Zenodotus, Timaeus, Hanno the Great, Euthydemus I, Gaius Claudius Nero, Timocharis, Quintus Fulvius Flaccus, Marcus Livius Salinator, and Quintus Caecilius Metellus.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Sostratus of Cnidus ranks 302 out of 1,347Before him are Ayşe Sultan (1541), Theodora (815), David of Trebizond (1408), Theodoret (393), İbrahim Tatlıses (1952), and Mehmet Ali Ağca (1958). After him are Onesimus (1), Nectarios of Aegina (1846), Şehzade Mehmed (1605), Nicephorus Gregoras (1295), Gennadius Scholarius (1400), and Alexander Balas (-150).

Among ARCHITECTS In Türkiye

Among architects born in Türkiye, Sostratus of Cnidus ranks 4Before him are Mimar Sinan (1490), Hippodamus of Miletus (-498), and Isidore of Miletus (442). After him are Hermogenes of Priene (-200), Kadir Topbaş (1945), Toros Toramanian (1864), and Gülsün Sağlamer (1945).