biography
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Ivan III
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known as the Great
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| male
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| lived:
| (1440-1505)
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| biography:
| Grand Prince of Moscow (1462–1505), born in Moscow, Russia. He succeeded in ending his city's subjection to the Tartars, and gained control over several Russian principalities. In 1472 he assumed the title of ‘Sovereign of all Russia’, and adopted the emblem of the two-headed eagle of the Byzantine Empire. |
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