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This is a list of people known as the Great, or the equivalent, in their own language. Other languages have their own suffixes, such as Persian e Bozorg and Hindustani e Azam . In Persia, the title "the Great" at first seems to have been a colloquial version of the Old Persian title "Great King" ( King of Kings , Shahanshah ).
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 30 January 2025. This is a list of monarchs (and other royalty and nobility) sorted by nickname. This list is divided into two parts: Cognomens: Also called cognomina. These are names which are appended before or after the person's name, like the epitheton necessarium, or Roman victory titles. Examples ...
Leo I, King of Armenia (1150–1219), also known as Levon I the Magnificent; Lorenzo de' Medici (1449–1492), Italian statesman and de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic; Robert I, Duke of Normandy (1000–1035), father of William the Conqueror; Simão Gonçalves da Câmara (1463–1530), Portuguese governor of the captaincy of Funchal
Ashoka, also known as Asoka or Aśoka (/ ə ˈ ʃ oʊ k ə / [7] ə-SHOH-kə; Sanskrit pronunciation: [ɐˈɕoːkɐ], IAST: Aśoka; c. 304 – 232 BCE), and popularly known as Ashoka the Great, was Emperor of Magadha [8] from c. 268 BCE until his death in 232 BCE, and the third ruler from the Mauryan dynasty.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the accepted version, checked on 2 February 2025. There are template/file changes awaiting review. Grand Prince of Kiev from 978 to 1015 "Prince Vladimir" redirects here. For the 2006 Russian film, see Prince Vladimir. In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Sviatoslavich. Vladimir the Great Vladimir's effigy ...
Alfred was the youngest son of Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, and his wife Osburh. [5] According to his biographer, Asser, writing in 893, "In the year of our Lord's Incarnation 849 Alfred, King of the Anglo-Saxons", was born at the royal estate called Wantage, in the district known as Berkshire [a] ("which is so called from Berroc Wood, where the box tree grows very abundantly").
OPINION: Despite America’s history of racism, there are some Black people who will always be beloved and respected by the American public. Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and ...
Pope Gregory I (Latin: Gregorius I; c. 540 – 12 March 604), commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great, was the 64th Bishop of Rome from 3 September 590 to his death. [1] [a] He is known for instituting the first recorded large-scale mission from Rome, the Gregorian mission, to convert the then largely pagan Anglo-Saxons to Christianity. [2]