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John of Biclaro
John of Biclaro was a Hispano-Roman chronicler and bishop of Girona, born at Scallabis (Santarém) in Lusitania. He spent some seventeen years in Constantinople and, after exile under the Arian Visigothic king Leovigild, founded the monastery of Biclaro. His chronicle of the years 567 to 590 records events in the Byzantine Empire and Visigothic Hispania, including the conversion of the Nubian kingdoms to Christianity.
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