List of people known as the Short
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The epithet
the Short applies to the following:
Epithet
An epithet or byname is a descriptive term accompanying or occurring in place of a name and having entered common usage. It has various shades of meaning when applied to seemingly real or fictitious people, divinities, objects, and binomial nomenclature. It is also a descriptive title...
the Short applies to the following:
- Dionysius ExiguusDionysius ExiguusDionysius Exiguus was a 6th-century monk born in Scythia Minor, modern Dobruja shared by Romania and Bulgaria. He was a member of the Scythian monks community concentrated in Tomis, the major city of Scythia Minor...
(c. 470–c. 544), a monk, inventor of the Anno Domini era - Pepin the Short (died 768), first King of the Franks, son of Charles Martel
- Władysław I the Elbow-high (1261-1333), King of Poland