Cosmas Indicopleustes

Alexandrian merchant, tracveler, and later hermit

495 CE to 560 CE

Cosmas Indicopleustes (literally "Cosmas who sailed to India"; also known as Cosmas the Monk) is an Alexandrian merchant and later hermit.

He is a 6th-century traveler, who madkes several voyages to India during the reign of emperor Justinian.

His work Christian Topography contains some of the earliest and most famous world maps.

Cosmas is a pupil of the East Syrian Patriarch Aba I and is himself follower of the Church of the East.

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