Cosmas Indicopleustes in the 6th century AD wrote of Atlantis in his Christian Topography in an attempt to prove his theory that the world was flat and surrounded by water:

Cosmas Indicopleustes ' world picture-flat earth in a Tabernacle.

The Egyptian monk Cosmas Indicopleustes ( 547 ) in his Topographia Christiana, where the Covenant Ark was meant to represent the whole universe, argued on theological grounds that the Earth was flat, a parallelogram enclosed by four oceans.

Diodorus, Severian, and Cosmas Indicopleustes, but also Chrysostom, belonged just to this latter tradition.

* Cosmas Indicopleustes, Alexandrian explorer-geographer, travels up the Nile.

After the fall of Rome, others took over the middle legs of the spice trade, first the Persians and then the Arabs ; Innes Miller cites the account of Cosmas Indicopleustes, who travelled east to India, as proof that " pepper was still being exported from India in the sixth century ".

Byzantine traveller Cosmas Indicopleustes wrote of East Syrian Christians he met in India and Sri Lanka in the 6th century.

* Cosmas Indicopleustes

Perhaps most notable of these is his commentary on Genesis, which is cited by Cosmas Indicopleustes, John Philoponus, and Photius ( Cod.

Cosmas Indicopleustes, a Greek Nestorian sailor, in his book the Christian Topography who visited the Malabar coast in 550 AD, mentions an enclave of Christian believers in Male ( Chera Kingdom ).

522 AD – an Egyptian Monk, Cosmas Indicopleustes in his writings, ‘’ Christian Topography ’’ mentions that there was this Church.

Later writers who mention Azania include Claudius Ptolemy and Cosmas Indicopleustes.

Diodore of Tarsus (?- 390 AD ), Cosmas Indicopleustes ( 6th century ), and Chrysostom ( 347 – 407 AD ) belonged to this flat Earth tradition.

Cosmas Indicopleustes describes this practiced in Azania, where officials from Axum traded for gold with beef.

Cosmas Indicopleustes records two inscriptions he found here in the 6th century: the first records how Ptolemy Euergetes ( 247-222 BC ) used war elephants captured in the region to gain victories in his wars abroad ; the second, known as the Monumentum Adulitanum, was inscribed in the 27th year of an unnamed king of Axum, boasting of his victories to the north and south of Axum.

Rhapta is also mentioned by the 6th-century author Cosmas Indicopleustes.

Ancient world maps | World map, by Cosmas Indicopleustes.

Cosmas Indicopleustes ( Greek, literally " Cosmas who sailed to India "; also known as Cosmas the Monk ) was an Alexandrian merchant and later hermit, probably of Nestorian tendencies.

* Kenneth Willis Clark collection of Greek Manuscripts: Cosmas Indicopleustes, Topographia.

* Cosmas Indicopleustes, ed.

The Christian Topography of Cosmas Indicopleustes.

* Cosmas Indicopleustes, Eric Otto Winstedt ( 1909 ).

Around 550 Cosmas wrote the once-copiously illustrated Christian Topography, a work partly based on his personal experiences as a merchant on the Red Sea and Indian Ocean in the early 6th century.

It was a synodical letter of faith, sent by Theodore, Patriarch of Jerusalem, and endorsed by Theodore, Patriarch of Antioch, and Cosmas, Patriarch of Alexandria.

** Departure of Pope Cosmas I of Alexandria ( 446 A. M .) ( 730 AD )

Photas responded by issuing an order to his prefect in Alexandria that the important church of Cosmas and Damian, and all its dependent churches, be turned over to Eulogius, who became the recognized Patriarch of Alexandria.

Pope Cosmas I of Alexandria ( Coptic ) was the 44th Coptic Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark ( 26 March 729 – 28 May 730 ).

It was during his office that a conflict between Alexandria and the king of Ethiopia that began in the time of Cosmas III ended, helped by the efforts of Georgios II of Makuria.

Pope Cosmas III of Alexandria was the Coptic Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark ( 921-933 ).

According to the History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria, after Abuna Peter of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church had become embroiled in a civil war and was forced into exile, and the Emperor of Ethiopia requested a new Abuna to replace him, Cosmas III refused to ordain a new Abuna because Peter was still alive.

* Patriarch Cosmas I of Alexandria ( 727-768 ), Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria

* Patriarch Cosmas II of Alexandria ( fl.

* Patriarch Cosmas III of Alexandria ( fl.

* Pope Cosmas I of Alexandria ( fl.

* Pope Cosmas II of Alexandria ( fl.

* Pope Cosmas III of Alexandria ( fl.

The only indication is communicated by the chronicler Cosmas of Prague, who stated that the Bohemian princess at the time of her marriage with Mieszko I was an old woman.

" It also found that Cosmas confuses Dobrawa with Mieszko I's second wife Oda, who at the time of her marriage was around 19 – 25 years old, a relatively advanced age for a bride according to the customs of the Middle Ages.

One account identifies his tutor as a monk by the name of Cosmas, who had been kidnapped by Arabs from his home in Sicily, and for whom John's father paid a great price.

Under the instruction of Cosmas, who also taught John's orphan friend ( the future St. Cosmas of Maiuma ), John is said to have made great advances in music, astronomy and theology, soon rivalling Pythagoras in arithmetic and Euclid in geometry.

Historians who made use of Regino's chronicle include Cosmas of Prague.

Also a result of the failed revolt was the death of the noted preacher and monk ( later canonized ) Cosmas of Aetolia, who was arrested and executed in 1779 on suspicion of being a Russian agent.

The writer is considered to be Cosmas, supporter of John Chrysostom who attributed both events to punishment for the two exiles of John.

The most represented artist included in the church is Titian, who painted St. Mark Enthroned with Saints Cosmas, Damian, Sebastian and Roch, the altarpiece of the sacristy, as well as ceiling paintings of David and Goliath, Abraham and Isaac and Cain and Abel, and eight tondi of the Doctors of the Church and the Evangelists, all in the great sacristy, and Pentecost in the nave.

Agioi Anargyroi ( Greek: Άγιοι Ανάργυροι, " Holy Unmercenaries ", saints who received no payment for their medical services ) is a suburb in the northern part of Athens, Greece, named for Saints Cosmas and Damian.

But according to Gallus Anonymus, he maintained his arrogance which caused the anger of his brother, who committed an act he regretted forever ; however, the chronicle Cosmas of Prague, stated that the punishment of Bolesław III was calculated:

During the persecution under Diocletian, Cosmas and Damian were arrested by order of the Prefect of Cilicia, one Lysias who is otherwise unknown, who ordered them under torture to recant.

Churches were built in their honor by Archbishop Proclus and by Emperor Justinian I ( 527 – 565 ), who sumptuously restored the city of Cyrus and dedicated it to the twins, but brought their relics to Constantinople ; there, following his cure, ascribed to the intercession of Cosmas and Damian, Justinian, in gratitude also built and adorned their church at Constantinople, and it became a celebrated place of pilgrimage.

The teacher of the two boys was an elderly Calabrian monk, also named Cosmas ( known as " Cosmas the Monk " to distinguish him ), who had been freed from slavery to the Saracens by St. John's father.

In direct proximity to the old parish church of the riverside community Podskalí, St. Cosmas and Damian, in the territory of the Vyšehrad cathedral he settled with the agreement of the Pope Clemens VI on 22 November 1347, an order of Benedictine monks who adhered to the old Slavic liturgy.