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García de Silva Figueroa

García de Silva Figueroa
García de Silva Figueroa, Spanish diplomat and traveller (d. 1624)

Don García de Silva Figueroa was a Spanish diplomat, and the first Western traveller to correctly identify the ruins of Takht-e Jamshid in Persia as the location of Persepolis, the ancient capital of the Achaemenid Empire and one of the great cities of antiquity.

29 December 1550

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