List of people known as the Short
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The epithet
Epithet
An epithet or byname is a descriptive term accompanying or occurring in place of a name and having entered common usage. It has various shades of meaning when applied to seemingly real or fictitious people, divinities, objects, and binomial nomenclature. It is also a descriptive title...

 the Short applies to the following:
  • Dionysius Exiguus
    Dionysius Exiguus
    Dionysius Exiguus was a 6th-century monk born in Scythia Minor, modern Dobruja shared by Romania and Bulgaria. He was a member of the Scythian monks community concentrated in Tomis, the major city of Scythia Minor...

     (c.  470–c.  544), a monk, inventor of the Anno Domini era
  • Pepin the Short (died 768), first King of the Franks, son of Charles Martel
  • Władysław I the Elbow-high (1261-1333), King of Poland
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