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Sviatoslav I
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Sviatoslav I

Diplomat

Born c. AD 942 · died AD 972
Also known as Sviatoslav I of Kiev, Sviatoslav I Igorevich, Svyatoslav

Who was alive at the same time as Sviatoslav I?

  1. Al-Farabi, c. AD 870 – AD 951
  2. Olga of Kiev, c. AD 890 – AD 969
  3. Al-Masudi, c. AD 896 – AD 957
  4. Pope Benedict V, c. AD 900 – AD 965
  5. Constantine VII, AD 905 – AD 959
  6. Otto the Great, AD 912 – AD 973
  7. Pope Leo VIII, c. AD 915 – AD 965
  8. Edmund I, c. AD 920 – AD 946
  9. Pope John XII, c. AD 937 – AD 964
  10. Sviatoslav I, c. AD 942 – AD 972
  11. Hugh Capet, AD 940 – AD 996
  12. Ferdowsi, AD 940 – c. 1020
  13. Erik the Red, c. AD 950 – 1003
  14. Vladimir the Great, c. AD 956 – 1015
  15. Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor, AD 955 – AD 983
  16. Basil II, AD 958 – 1025
  17. Ibn al-Haytham, c. AD 965 – 1039
  18. Sei Shōnagon, c. AD 966 – c. 1025
  19. Bolesław I the Brave, AD 967 – 1025
  20. Mahmud of Ghazni, AD 971 – 1030

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When Sviatoslav I died, Ferdowsi was 31 or 32, Otto the Great was 59 or 60, Hugh Capet was 31 or 32, Basil II was 13 or 14 and Bolesław I the Brave was 4 or 5.

Born during Sviatoslav I’s lifetime: Ibn al-Haytham, Vladimir the Great, Sei Shōnagon, Basil II, Bolesław I the Brave, Erik the Red, Mahmud of Ghazni and Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor.

Not quite contemporaries: Avicenna was born about 5 years after Sviatoslav I died, Al-Biruni was born months after Sviatoslav I died, Abu Bakr al-Razi died about 15 years before Sviatoslav I was born and Pope John X died about 8 years before Sviatoslav I was born.

Where Sviatoslav I’s contemporaries were born

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