Samos Island, Ionia.
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Pythagoras was born around 575 b.c., the exact date is not known.
That Pythagoras was the son of Mnesarchus, may be safely affirmed on the authority ofHerodotus; that Samos, the Greek island in the eastern Aegean, was his birth-place, is affirmed by Isocrates.[7] His father was a Phoenician merchant from Tyre, his mother, Pythais, was apparently a native of Samos.
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Pythagoras didn't really study at any specific place. There were, among his teachers, three philosophers. One of the most important was Pherekydes.
Pythagoras was born in Samos, in Ionia, around 570 BC. His father was Mnesarchus and his mother may have been named Pythias (his birth name was associated with the Pythian or Delphic worship of Apollo).