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a peasant in the Taurus Mountains ( - fl. c. 1700)

Relevant locations: Lived at or near Taurus Mountains, Turkey
References in Documents:
MS Book of Benefactors (MacGregor, ed.)

John Gosch, the Dutch consul in Turkey, gave a brass seal belonging to Makanios, the Patriarch of Antioch, recently discovered by a peasant in the Taurus mountains near Antioch. It's inscription runs: 'Makarios by the mercy of God patriarch of the great city Antioch and of all Anatolia'. See the Vice-Chancellor's Catalogue, no. 894b.