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Alexander I (Czar of Russia)
History; World history

(1777-1825) Czar of Russia (r.1801-25). Defeated by Bonaparte at Austerlitz (1805) and Friedland (1807), he made peace with France at Tilsit (1807). After the French withdrawal ...

Alexander I (King of Yugoslavia)
History; World history

(1888-1934) King of Yugoslavia. Serbian prince regent from 1914, after World War I he ruled the kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, becoming king in 1922. In 1929 he ...

Alexander II
History; World history

(1818-81) Czar of Russia (r.1855-81). Fearing revolution, he emancipated the serfs in 1861; his Zemstvo Statute (1864) introduced district and provincial assemblies; his Duma ...

Alexander III
History; World history

(1845-94) Czar of Russia (r.1881-94). Autocratic and intolerant, he persecuted nationalists, liberals and Jews. He rounded off the conquests of his predecessors in Central Asia, ...

Alexander VI
History; World history

Pope (r.1492-1503). Born Rodrigo Borgia in 1431, his pontificate was marked by scandals (his illegitimate children included Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia), and by his ruthless ...

Alexandria
History; World history

City on the Egyptian coast founded by Alexander the Great in 332 BC and seat of the Ptolemaic dynasty. The Ptolemies successfully preserved its independence from Egypt proper, but ...

Alexius I Comnenus
History; World history

Byzantine emperor (r.1081-1118) who saved the Byzantine empire from the Normans of southern Italy and the Pechenegs by using the aid of first Venice and then the Cumans. He ...

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