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Benedetto Zaccaria
Italian admiral of the Republic of Genoa
Years: 1235 - 1307
Benedetto I Zaccaria (c. 1235 – 1307) is an Italian admiral of the Republic of Genoa.
He is the Lord of Phocaea (from 1288) and first Lord of Chios (from 1304), and the founder of Zaccaria fortunes in Byzantine and Latin Greece.
He is, at different stages in his life, a diplomat, adventurer, mercenary, and statesman.
