Historical people
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Browse historical figures ranked by the number of books linked to them.
Modu Chanyu is represented in the linked non-fiction through exploration, travel and cultural encounter, political ambition and government, and empire, conquest and resistance. These works approach […]
Muhammad is represented in the linked non-fiction through empire, conquest and resistance, religion, belief and institutional authority, and court politics and dynastic power. These works approach […]
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was an Ottoman officer who led the Turkish nationalist movement after the First World War and became the first president of the Republic […]
Nathaniel Courthope was an English East India Company factor who occupied the small spice island of Run in 1616 to challenge Dutch control of the Banda […]
Nerva was Roman emperor from AD 96 to 98, succeeding Domitian after his assassination. His short reign is important because he adopted Trajan, beginning the succession […]
Numa Pompilius was the legendary second king of Rome. Roman tradition credited him with religious institutions, priesthoods and a peaceful ordering of civic life after the […]
Oceanus was the primordial river or divine personification believed by the Greeks to encircle the inhabited world. He belongs to early cosmological traditions in which seas, […]