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Sayat-Nova

1712 - 1795

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Sayat-Nova (Armenian: Սայեաթ-Նովայ (сlassical), Սայաթ-Նովա (reformed); Georgian: საიათნოვა; Azerbaijani: سایات‌نووا; Persian: سایات‌نووا; born Harutyun Sayatyan; 14 June 1712 – 22 September 1795) was an Armenian poet, musician and ashugh, who had compositions in a number of languages. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sayat-Nova is the 565th most popular writer (up from 574th in 2019), the 14th most popular biography from Georgia (up from 16th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Georgian Writer.

Sayat-Nova is most famous for his poems that were written in the Azeri language. Sayat-Nova was born in 1714 and died in 1795.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sayat-Nova ranks 565 out of 7,302. Before him are Anthony Burgess, Tom Clancy, James Hilton, Salvatore Quasimodo, Beatrix Potter, and Juan Ramón Jiménez. After him are Frontinus, Sidney Sheldon, Frederick Forsyth, Arthur Koestler, Alfred Jarry, and Klaus Ebner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1712, Sayat-Nova ranks 5. Before him are Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Frederick the Great, Count of St. Germain, and Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine. After him are Francesco Guardi, Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp, Charles-Michel de l'Épée, Tokugawa Ieshige, Pauline Félicité de Mailly-Nesle, George Grenville, and Louis-Joseph de Montcalm. Among people deceased in 1795, Sayat-Nova ranks 4. Before him are Louis XVII of France, Alessandro Cagliostro, and François-André Danican Philidor. After him are Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, Henry Clinton, Ahilyabai Holkar, Honoré III, Prince of Monaco, Georg Benda, Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart, Carl Michael Bellman, and Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville.

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In Georgia

Among people born in Georgia, Sayat-Nova ranks 14 out of 406. Before him are Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893), Tigran Petrosian (1929), Zviad Gamsakhurdia (1939), Yakov Dzhugashvili (1907), Sergei Parajanov (1924), and Niko Pirosmani (1862). After him are Kato Svanidze (1885), Aleksei Brusilov (1853), Mikheil Saakashvili (1967), Rusudan of Georgia (1194), David IV of Georgia (1073), and Nona Gaprindashvili (1941).

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Among WRITERS In Georgia

Among writers born in Georgia, Sayat-Nova ranks 3. Before him are Shota Rustaveli (1172), and Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893). After him are Ilia Chavchavadze (1837), Boris Akunin (1956), Pavel Bermondt-Avalov (1877), Nodar Dumbadze (1928), Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko (1858), Akaki Tsereteli (1840), Nikoloz Baratashvili (1817), Alexander Kazbegi (1848), and Vazha-Pshavela (1861).

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