biography
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Cosmas
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known as Indicopleustes (‘Indian Traveller’)
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pronunciation:
[kozmas]
| biography:
| A merchant of Alexandria, who travelled widely in Ethiopia and Asia. He returned to Egypt c.550, and in monastic retirement wrote a Greek work on Christian topography to prove the authenticity of the biblical account of the world. |
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