Greece: Strabo (c.64 BCE - 24 CE), Greek geographer, philosopher, and historian. 16th century engraving

Strabo was born to an affluent family from Amaseia in Pontus (modern Amasya, Turkey); he is most famous for his work Geographica ('Geography'), which presented a descriptive history of people and places from the different regions of the world known to his era.

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