9th-century diplomats

Bishop Synnada

9th-century Abbasid official

Byzantine scholar and diplomat

Abū Zakariyyāʾ Yaḥyā ibn Ḥakam al-Bakrī al-Jayyānī ( 790–864), nicknamed al-Ghazāl ('the gazelle'), was an Andalusi Arab poet and diplomat. He undertook two important missions for the Emirate of Córdoba, the first to the Byzantine Empire in 840 and the second to the Vikings in 845.