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This page groups historical figures by how solidly their existence is documented, from people confirmed by independent contemporary sources to ones known only from later religious writing. Wikipedia defines historicity as "the historical actuality of persons and events, meaning the quality of being part of history instead of being a historical myth, legend, or fiction." Browsing this way lets a visitor tell a firmly historical founder apart from a figure whose existence scholars still debate.

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Africa

This source names Africa directly: "khagans and dynastic founders of Africa, the Americas and Asia whose reigns intersected the traditions this atlas covers."

Source Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions

Americas

This source names Americas directly: "and dynastic founders of Africa, the Americas and Asia whose reigns intersected the traditions this atlas covers."

Source Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions

Asia

This source names Asia directly: "founders of Africa, the Americas and Asia whose reigns intersected the traditions this atlas covers."

Source Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions

Mesopotamians

This source names Mesopotamians directly: "Rulers, emperors and monarchs held political sovereignty, whatever their religious significance beyond it: the Roman emperors under whom Christianity moved from persecuted sect to state church, the..."

Source Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions

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Afonso I of Kongo

Akbar

Akhenaten

Akihito

Alfred the Great

Antiochus IV

Ardashir I

Ashoka

Augustus

Aurangzeb

Bilge Khagan

Bogu Khagan

Bohemond of Taranto

Charlemagne

Charles II of England

Charles III

Constantine the Great

Dhu Nuwas

Diocletian

Elizabeth I

Empress Suiko

Eucleides of Athens

Godfrey of Bouillon

Hammurabi

Hasan-i Sabbah

Henry VIII

Itzamnaaj Bahlam III

Jahangir

Julius Caesar

Justinian I

K'inich Janaab' Pakal

Lady Xoc

Leonidas I

Mary, Queen of Scots

Mursili II

Napoleon Bonaparte

Narmer

Nebuchadnezzar II

Nero

Nezahualcóyotl

Njinga of Ndongo and Matamba

Osei Tutu

Philipp Adolf von Ehrenberg

Puduhepa

Selim I

Seti I

Sisavang Vatthana

Songtsen Gampo

Suryavarman II

Themistocles

Theodosius I

Titus

Tutankhamun

Vladimir the Great

Wu Zetian

Yaa Asantewaa

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