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Dionysius of Byzantium

Dionysius of Byzantium

c. 115 CE–c. 180 CE · Constantinople (Istanbul)

Dionysius of Byzantium was a Greek geographer, probably active in the 2nd century CE. He wrote a description of the voyage up the Bosphorus, the strait beside his home city, a detailed account valuable for the topography and lore of the region. Little else is known about him.

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Constantinople (Istanbul)קונסטנטינופולOttoman Empire

We know they were here, but the specifics of what they did at this stop aren’t recorded yet in our corpus.

About Constantinople (Istanbul)

Major post-1492 Sephardi center under Ottoman protection. Home of R. Yehudah Rosanes (Mishneh L'Melech) and many other Acharonim.

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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Dionysius of Byzantium’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.

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