People

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Tristan is the Cornish knight whose loyalty to King Mark conflicts with his love for Iseult in medieval romance. The Tristan story became a major strand […]

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1794–1816

Tusun Pasha was a son of Muhammad Ali of Egypt and a commander in the Egyptian campaign in Arabia. He led forces sent to recover the […]

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Uriah the Hittite was a soldier in King David’s army and the husband of Bathsheba. David arranges Uriah’s death during the siege of Rabbah after Bathsheba […]

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328–378

Valens was eastern Roman emperor from AD 364 to 378. His defeat and death at Adrianople against the Goths became one of the most serious military […]

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Varina Davis is represented in the linked historical fiction through political ambition and government, social change and the pressures of ordinary life, and family, marriage and […]

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1820–1878

Victor Emmanuel II was king of Sardinia and became the first king of a united Italy in 1861. Working with Cavour, Garibaldi and other nationalist forces, […]

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Victorio was a Chihenne Apache leader who resisted removal from the Warm Springs homeland in New Mexico. From 1879 to 1880 he led a highly mobile […]

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25–68

Gaius Julius Vindex was the Roman governor of Gallia Lugdunensis who rebelled against Nero in AD 68. He supported Galba as an alternative emperor but was […]

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71 BCE–20 BCE

Virgil was a Roman poet of the Augustan age and author of the Aeneid. His epic links the fall of Troy to the legendary origins of […]

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c. 958–1015

Vladimir the Great was Grand Prince of Kiev and the ruler associated with the Christianisation of Kievan Rus. His agreement with Basil II supplied thousands of […]

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