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Kassia

810 - 865

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Kassia, Cassia, Kassiane, or Kassiani (Greek: Κασσιανή, romanized: Kassianí, pronounced [kasia'ni]; c. 810 – c.865) was a Byzantine-Greek composer, hymnographer and poet. She holds a unique place in Byzantine music as the only known woman whose music appears in the Byzantine liturgy. Approximately fifty of her hymns are extant, most of which are stichera, though at least 26 have uncertain attribution. The authenticity issues are due to many hymns being anonymous, and others ascribed to different authors in different manuscripts. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kassia is the 719th most popular writer (up from 1,265th in 2019), the 305th most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 459th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Turkish Writer.

Kassia is most famous for being the first female poet to write in the vernacular.

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Among writers, Kassia ranks 719 out of 7,302. Before her are Epicharmus of Kos, William F. Buckley Jr., John Irving, Mihai Eminescu, Alejo Carpentier, and Pierre Loti. After her are Marie de France, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Witold Gombrowicz, Pietro Bembo, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, and Tirso de Molina.

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Among people born in 810, Kassia ranks 6. Before her are Muhammad al-Bukhari, John Scotus Eriugena, Pope Benedict III, Abbas ibn Firnas, and Kenneth MacAlpin. After her are Halfdan the Black, Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathir al-Farghani, García Íñiguez of Pamplona, Hastein, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, and Eulogius of Córdoba. Among people deceased in 865, Kassia ranks 3. Before her are Æthelberht, King of Wessex, and Ansgar. After her is Paschasius Radbertus.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Kassia ranks 305 out of 1,347. Before her are Polyxena (null), Yaqut al-Hamawi (1179), Evagrius Ponticus (345), Ignatios of Constantinople (797), Tarasios of Constantinople (730), and Attalus III (-170). After her are Abgar V (-1), Pelagia (400), Barsine (-363), Constantine Laskaris (1170), Şehzade Abdullah (1776), and Cevdet Sunay (1899).

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Among WRITERS In Türkiye

Among writers born in Türkiye, Kassia ranks 16. Before her are Zosimus (460), Novatian (220), Yunus Emre (1240), André Chénier (1762), Aratus (-315), and Gregory of Narek (951). After her are Theodore the Studite (759), Ibn Hawqal (943), Dio Chrysostom (40), Bar Hebraeus (1226), Theodoret (393), and Zenodotus (-330).

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