| Their king and many members of their governing elite were killed, and their kingdom rapidly collapsed. |
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| When the Kuru kingdom declined, the centre of Vedic culture shifted to their eastern neighbours, the Panchala kingdom. |
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| The division of the kingdom gave Austrasia, Alemannia, and Thuringia to Carloman and Neustria, Provence, and Burgundy to Pepin. |
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| After that, the Visigoth kingdom was limited to Hispania, and they never again held territory north of the Pyrenees other than Septimania. |
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| After Isabella I's death in 1504, her kingdom went to their daughter Joanna. |
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| Similarly, the position of Kanclerz in the Polish kingdom was always held by a bishop until the 16th century. |
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| Beluchistan, shown as an independent kingdom along with Afghanistan and Turkestan, in an 1880 map. |
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| The eldest son, Charibert I, inherited the kingdom with its capital at Paris and ruled all of western Gaul. |
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| In those times, to build a kingdom from an aggregation of small states was itself no great difficulty. |
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| In the Holy Roman Empire, the main dukes and bishops of the kingdom elected the King of the Romans. |
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| Kozhikode and its suburbs formed part of the Polanad kingdom ruled by the Porlatiri. |
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| After the War of the Spanish Succession in the early 18th century, possession of the kingdom again changed hands. |
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| The project's objective is to connect all schools within the kingdom with the Internet. |
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| This text contains a number of laws, dated to the 8th century BC kingdom of Judah. |
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| Around 120,000 species of fungi have been described by taxonomists, but the global biodiversity of the fungus kingdom is not fully understood. |
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| The Congo Free State was an independent kingdom in central Africa in personal union with Belgium under King Leopold. |
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| The Gepids then founded a kingdom centered on Sirmium, known as Gepidia, which was defeated by the Lombards a century later. |
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| By the end of his life, Clovis ruled all of Gaul save the Gothic province of Septimania and the Burgundian kingdom in the southeast. |
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| Until 796, Charles continued to expand the kingdom even farther southeast, into today's Austria and parts of Croatia. |
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| It was called a regnum in contemporary sources, though this does not necessarily mean that it was a kingdom or subkingdom. |
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| However, Odo had ambiguously left the kingdom jointly to his two sons, Hunald and Hatto. |
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| It replaced the ancient kingdom of France, ruled by the divine right of kings. |
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| Rurik led the Rus' until his death in about 879, bequeathing his kingdom to his kinsman, Prince Oleg, as regent for his young son, Igor. |
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| The earliest known independent Moroccan state was the Berber kingdom of Mauretania under king Baga. |
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| Following the Navarrese tradition, on his death in 1064 he divided his kingdom between his sons. |
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| In 1501, he occupied Naples and partitioned the kingdom with Ferdinand of Aragon, who abandoned his cousin King Frederick. |
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| Starting in the middle of the 16th century, the kingdom came under repeated attacks by the Taungoo Dynasty of Burma. |
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| Bahrain hopes to build a science culture within the kingdom and to encourage technological innovation, among other goals. |
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| The Rajahnate of Cebu was a defunct native kingdom which existed in Cebu prior to the arrival of the Spaniards. |
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| Lutherans do not believe in any sort of earthly millennial kingdom of Christ either before or after his second coming on the last day. |
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| Chlothar then took control of the other two kingdoms and set up a united Frankish kingdom with its capital in Paris. |
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| A characteristic that places fungi in a different kingdom from plants, bacteria, and some protists is chitin in their cell walls. |
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| He gained control of Surrey and the kingdom of Kent, and in 686 he installed his brother, Mul, as king of Kent. |
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| Every territory within the kingdom contributed citizens proportionally in order to maintain the force. |
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| Pavia fell after a siege of three years, in 572, becoming the first capital city of the new Lombard kingdom of Italy. |
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| The Ostrogothic kingdom persisted until 553 under Teia, when Italy returned briefly to Byzantine control. |
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| What historians today think is that this realm could just as well be the force behind the creation of the medieval kingdom of Sweden. |
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| Eraric, the leader of the group, endorsed Belisarius and the rest of the kingdom agreed, so they offered him their crown. |
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| During the war, more than 650,000 Italian soldiers and as many civilians died and the kingdom went to the brink of bankruptcy. |
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| Upon Pepin's death in 768, his sons, Charles and Carloman, once again divided the kingdom between themselves. |
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| He is considered to have been the founder of the Merovingian dynasty, which ruled the Frankish kingdom for the next two centuries. |
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| When Clovis died, his kingdom was partitioned among his four sons, Theuderic, Chlodomer, Childebert, and Clotaire. |
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| The Frankish kingdom was subdivided by Charlemagne into three separate areas to make administration easier. |
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| The latter's kingdom is securely placed to the northeast, while Roderic seems to have taken the rest, notably modern Portugal. |
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| From this point some reckon a kingdom of the Germans as supplanting that of the Franks. |
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| The kingdom of Alamannia between Strasbourg and Augsburg lasted until 496, when the Alemanni were conquered by Clovis I at the Battle of Tolbiac. |
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| Java's contact with the European colonial powers began in 1522 with a treaty between the Sunda kingdom and the Portuguese in Malacca. |
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| It is generally accepted, therefore, that Rheged was a kingdom covering a large part of modern Cumbria. |
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| After the union of the Lombards to the Frankish kingdom, the capitularies made for the entire kingdom were applicable to Italy. |
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| These conquests were lost in the reign of Roger's successor William, however, and never formed an integral part of the kingdom in southern Italy. |
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| The Asturian kingdom became firmly established with the recognition of Alfonso II as king of Asturias by Charlemagne and the Pope. |
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| Pelagius' kingdom initially was little more than a gathering point for the existing guerrilla forces. |
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| He went to war with the kingdom of Castile in 1295, relinquishing the villages of Serpa and Moura. |
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| At his death in 1458, the kingdom was again separated and Naples was inherited by Ferrante, Alfonso's illegitimate son. |
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| This ancient kingdom built monuments such as the 9th century Borobudur and Prambanan in central Java. |
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| In 1619, succumbing to attacks by the Portuguese, the independent existence of Jaffna kingdom came to an end. |
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| This coincided with the Portuguese search for Prester John, as they soon associated the kingdom as his land. |
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| The kingdom combines modern Arab culture and the archaeological legacy of five thousand years of civilisation. |
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| Although New Spain was a dependency of Spain, it was a kingdom not a colony, subject to the presiding monarch on the Iberian Peninsula. |
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| In his will Charles stated his doubts over Navarre and recommended that his son give the kingdom back. |
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| United Kingdom, for example, is a proper name with the common noun kingdom as its head, and North Carolina is headed by the proper noun Carolina. |
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| About 1568 to 1569, the Jaga invaded Kongo, laying waste to the kingdom and forcing the manikongo into exile. |
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| The Frankish kingdom grew through a complex development of conquest, patronage, and alliance building. |
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| Hwyel quickly merged Seisyllwg and Dyfed into the new kingdom of Deheubarth, which covered most of southwest Wales. |
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| Although its precise original purpose is debated, it delineated the border between Anglian Mercia and the Welsh kingdom of Powys. |
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| According to the Records of the Three Kingdoms, the most powerful kingdom on the archipelago during the 3rd century was called Yamataikoku. |
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| Forsyth speculates that a period of bilingualism may have outlasted the Pictish kingdom in peripheral areas by several generations. |
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| The Welsh equivalent to Lyonesse and Ker Ys is Cantre'r Gwaelod, a legendary drowned kingdom in Cardigan Bay. |
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| To their west was the native British kingdom of Dumnonia, in what is now Devon and Cornwall. |
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| This unified the Crown of Aragon and the Crown of Castile into the kingdom of Spain. |
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| Augustus planned in 6 AD to destroy the kingdom of Maroboduus, which he considered to be too dangerous for the Romans. |
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| In 585 AD, first Audeca and later Malaric, were defeated and the Suebic kingdom was incorporated into the Visigothic one as its sixth province. |
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| From an early date the East Frankish kingdom had a more formalised notion of royal election than West Francia. |
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| The Burgundian kingdom was made part of the Merovingian kingdoms, and the Burgundians themselves were by and large absorbed as well. |
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| It was originally an early medieval petty kingdom of varying boundaries known as Glywysing until taken over by the Normans as a lordship. |
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| The Alans' allies, the Hasdingi Vandals, also established a kingdom in another part of Gallaecia. |
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| Because of this, Ethelred fled to Normandy in 1013, when he was forced from his kingdom by Sweyn Forkbeard. |
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| While Theodoric lived, the Visigothic kingdom was practically united to his own dominion. |
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| The kingdom of Aragon also introduced the feudal system into the areas of Sardinia that it ruled. |
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| The kingdom of East Anglia was devastated by the Vikings, who destroyed any contemporary evidence of his reign. |
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| The role of the Mukarrib was to bring the various tribes under the kingdom and preside over them all. |
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| In the Middle Ages, it was a minor kingdom also known for a time as Seisyllwg. |
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| These stones may date largely to after the Scottish takeover of the Pictish kingdom in the mid 9th century. |
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| After this, Pepin, though not a king, was the political ruler of the Frankish kingdom and left this position as a heritage to his sons. |
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| Sicily was ruled as an independent kingdom by relatives of the kings of Aragon until 1409 and then as part of the Crown of Aragon. |
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| In 500 Clovis fought a battle with the Burgundian kingdom at Dijon but was unable to subdue them. |
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| His contacts extended to the Lombard kingdom in Italy, where they included King Perctarit and his son Cunipert. |
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| However, Oswiu killed Penda shortly after, and Mercia spent the rest of the 7th and all of the 8th century fighting the kingdom of Powys. |
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| The government of the new kingdom took place in a framework of parliamentary constitutional monarchy dominated by liberal forces. |
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| The Balearic Islands were then incorporated directly into the kingdom of Aragon. |
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| The Lombard kingdom was subsequently absorbed into the Frankish Empire by Charlemagne in the late 8th century. |
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| Henry may even have promulgated a law stipulating that the kingdom would thereafter be united. |
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| From this time forward, and perhaps from much earlier, the kingdom of Strathclyde was subject to periodic domination by the kings of Alba. |
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| In the end, the Cathars were exterminated and the autonomous County of Toulouse was annexed into the kingdom of France. |
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| By the late 14th century, the renewal occurred regardless of whether either kingdom was involved in a conflict with England. |
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| It was, together with Blekinge and Halland, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula, but forming the eastern part of the kingdom of Denmark. |
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| For a brief period, the Visigoths controlled the strongest kingdom in Western Europe. |
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| He granted the kingdom of Thomond to Philip de Braose and granted Desmond to Robert FitzStephen and Miles de Cogan. |
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| The kingdom was established as a merger of a large number of petty kingdoms. |
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| Politically, by the 3rd century BCE, the kingdom of Magadha had annexed or reduced other states to emerge as the Mauryan Empire. |
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| Following the Saxon invasion of Britain, Leicester was occupied by the Middle Angles and subsequently administered by the kingdom of Mercia. |
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| Nearest to the ancient Frankish kingdom of Austrasia was Westphalia, and farthest away was Eastphalia. |
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| For the next five years, he administered the two parts of his dual kingdom as separate units. |
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| The kingdom received its name from the fortified port city which served as its capital. |
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| Thereafter, Austrasia was predominantly the kingdom of the Arnulfing mayors of the palace and their base of power. |
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| He was twice briefly returned to power in 1185 and 1189, but even within his home kingdom of Connacht he had become politically marginalized. |
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| The Protestant Reformation dragged the kingdom ever more deeply into the mire of religiously charged wars. |
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| In the 12th century, however, the kingdom contracted to its core, and in 1162 King Sancho VI declared himself king of Navarre. |
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| The last Moorish kingdom fell in the same year Columbus reached the Americas. |
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| In 1816, it was reunified with the island kingdom of Sicily once again to form the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. |
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| During the 7th and 8th centuries, Frankish chronologies mention the northern Low Countries as the kingdom of the Frisians. |
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| Modern historians show a kingdom that had become wealthier and more stable particularly during the first decade of his rule. |
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| During his reign, the laws in force in the kingdom of Portugal were recodified with the publication of the Manueline Ordinations. |
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| He became related by marriage to a certain Espan, the nephew of king Heracles, who also ruled over a kingdom in Spain. |
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| The name of their kingdom survives in that of France, which ultimately traces its origins to the western portion of the kingdom. |
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| The kingdom had an abundance of rice, salt, dried fish, arrack and vegetables. |
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| But notwithstanding this, he failed in the end, and with him the attempt to create a kingdom of Ireland and drive out the settlers ceased. |
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| Although the Scottish kingdom had been easily conquered by King Edward, it lay restless under his rule. |
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| Medang's religion centred on the Hindu god Shiva, and the kingdom produced some of Java's earliest Hindu temples on the Dieng Plateau. |
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| Antonio Pigafetta, Magellan's chronicler, first documented this pastime in the kingdom of Taytay. |
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| This kingdom successfully resisted the Moors and subsequently initiated the Spanish Reconquista. |
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| The route covers a number of places that were part of the dominions of the Moche kingdom in its heyday. |
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| This institution was forcibly discontinued in 1833 when the kingdom was divided into four administrative provinces with no legal mutual links. |
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| After the collapse of the kingdom Tarumanagara following an attack by the Srivijaya empire, power in western Java fell to the Kingdom of Sunda. |
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| During the 17th century, a Lunda chief and warrior called Mwata Kazembe set up an Eastern Lunda kingdom in the valley of the Luapula River. |
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| The kingdom of Lunda came to an end in the 19th century when it was invaded by the Chokwe, who were armed with guns. |
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| Whereto shall we liken the kingdom of God? Or with what comparison shall we compare it? |
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| The area which this kingdom covered included most of Southern Northumbria, roughly equivalent to the borders of Yorkshire extending further West. |
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| It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. |
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| Gwynedd was an independent kingdom from the end of the Roman period until the 13th century, when it was conquered by England. |
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| The unified kingdom of Alba retained some of the ritual aspects of Pictish and Scottish kingship. |
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| The last king of Essex was Sigered and in 825, he ceded the kingdom to Egbert of Wessex. |
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| Their kingdom was weak, hopelessly divided, and ruled by a king who was barely distinguishable from a peasant. |
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| Henry presented himself as the legitimate heir to Henry I and commenced rebuilding the kingdom in his image. |
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| In 920 Hywel merged Seisyllwg with the Kingdom of Dyfed to form the new kingdom of Deheubarth. |
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| Neither water molds nor slime molds are closely related to the true fungi, and, therefore, taxonomists no longer group them in the kingdom Fungi. |
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| With the death of Rhodri Mawr, the kingdom of Gwynedd passed to his eldest son Anarawd ap Rhodri. |
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| The legend of a sunken kingdom appears in both Cornish and Breton mythology. |
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| This was the first time that a barbarian kingdom had played a key role in the imperial succession. |
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| The kingdom was centred on the valley of the River Trent and its tributaries, in the region now known as the English Midlands. |
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| These attacks marked the beginning of sustained pressure from the expanding kingdom of Mercia. |
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| Similarly Cornwall was a British kingdom before it became an English county. |
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| The kingdom was later restored to Maredudd's family, but through Hywel, the grandson of his brother Einion. |
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| With its origins in the kingdom of Sussex, the later county of Sussex was traditionally divided into six units known as rapes. |
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| Suebic Gallaecia was the first kingdom separated from the Roman Empire to mint coins. |
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| Nonetheless, Henry inherited a difficult situation in England, as the kingdom had suffered extensively during the civil war. |
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| The architecture of Conwy has close to links to that found in the kingdom of Savoy in the same period. |
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| It later merged with the kingdom of Bernicia, its northern neighbour, to form the kingdom of Northumbria. |
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| At its peak, the Getae kingdom reportedly was able to muster 200,000 warriors. |
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| For the next 24 years, Henry ruled the kingdom personally, rather than through senior ministers. |
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| Wales was fully incorporated into the Kingdom of England, and Ireland was constituted as a kingdom in personal union with the English crown. |
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| Cnut's skalds emphasise the parallelism between Cnut's rule of his earthly kingdom and God's rule of Heaven. |
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| The Celtic kingdom of Noricum was later claimed by the Roman Empire and made a province. |
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| The Suevi established a kingdom in Gallaecia in what is today modern Galicia and northern Portugal. |
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| William's ability to leave England for an entire year was a sign that he felt that his control of the kingdom was secure. |
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| Whether this meant only for Cumbria and Lothian or for the whole Scottish kingdom was left ambiguous. |
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| The fact that some sources are silent about the Geats indicates that any independent Geatish kingdom no longer existed in the 9th century. |
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| Some appear to have been reluctant to take up lands in a kingdom that did not always appear pacified. |
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| There is disagreement over the fate of the kingdom from the late 8th century onwards. |
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| The emperor Louis I, however, opposed this arrangement and gave the kingdom to his youngest son Charles, afterwards the emperor Charles the Bald. |
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| Eventually, Hunald retired to a monastery, leaving both the kingdom and the continuing conflict to Waifer, or Guaifer. |
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| Richard would surrender the kingdom of England to Henry, who would then give it back as a fief of the Holy Roman Empire. |
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| To the north, it bordered on Bretagne, Anjou, Blois and Bourbonnais, all of which had passed to the kingdom of France by the 13th century. |
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| Ultimately, Elizabeth would insist she was married to her kingdom and subjects, under divine protection. |
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| As sovereign, he used the arms of the kingdom undifferenced, supported by a white boar and a lion. |
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| He chose the city of Taiz to become the political capital of the kingdom because of its strategic location and proximity to Aden. |
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| The Isle was owned by a Norman family until 1293 and was earlier a kingdom in its own right. |
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| Although his own kingdom disappeared, his issue went on to rule a quarter of Europe. |
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| At first Sicily was able to remain as an independent kingdom under personal union, while the Bourbons ruled over both from Naples. |
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| Upon Clovis's death in 511, the Merovingian kingdom included all of Gaul except Burgundy and all of Germania magna except Saxony. |
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| As Duke of York, Charles bore the royal arms of the kingdom differenced by a label Argent of three points, each bearing three torteaux Gules. |
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| Castile was a much larger kingdom than Aragon, and it was inherited by Catherine's mentally unstable elder sister, Joanna. |
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| Wiping out half of Prussian territories from the map, Napoleon created a new kingdom of 1,100 square miles called Westphalia. |
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| A letter to Oliver St John in September 1648 urged him to read Isaiah 8, in which the kingdom falls and only the godly survive. |
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| During the Dark Ages the island was settled by Jutes as the pagan kingdom of Wihtwara under King Arwald. |
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| A coinage commemorating Edmund was minted from around the time East Anglia was absorbed by the kingdom of Wessex and a popular cult emerged. |
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| Shortly afterwards Wilfrid was ordained a priest by Agilbert, Bishop of Dorchester in the kingdom of the Gewisse, part of Wessex. |
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| While Lancelot is an infant, his father is driven from his kingdom in Britain by his enemy Claudas de la Deserte. |
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| And they follow that which the devils falsely related against the kingdom of Solomon. |
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| In the Idylls, Arthur became a symbol of ideal manhood who ultimately failed, through human weakness, to establish a perfect kingdom on earth. |
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| In England, the Norman Conquest of 1066 resulted in a kingdom ruled by a Francophone nobility. |
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| At least six ravens are kept at the Tower at all times, in accordance with the belief that if they are absent, the kingdom will fall. |
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| Clovis made Paris his capital and established the Merovingian dynasty, but his kingdom would not survive his death. |
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| To the south, the kingdom extended some distance up the valley of the Clyde, and along the coast probably extended south towards Ayr. |
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| With Brian dead, Ireland returned to the fractured kingdom it had once been, but was now cleared of further Viking predation. |
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| He has no sons, so upon reaching old age he decides to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. |
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| The resulting stresses almost caused the disintegration of the French kingdom during the early years of the war. |
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| Irish sources report events in the kingdom of Dumbarton only when they have an Irish link. |
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| Eochaid, the result of this marriage, may have been king of Strathclyde, or of the kingdom of Alba. |
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| However, it may be that these represent campaigns by kings of Alt Clut, whose kingdom was certainly part of the region linked by the Irish Sea. |
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| Some students of Arthurian lore identify the Lake District with the Grail kingdom of Listeneise. |
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| However, as their king had submitted to Henry, the kingdom should have been exempt from attack. |
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| Solid evidence for the origins of Ripon can be traced back to the 7th century, the time of the Anglian kingdom of Northumbria. |
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| For you know very well how much blood his father shed to secure the kingdom on his son. |
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| So, in just nine years, the kingdom so hard won by Robert the Bruce had been shattered and had recovered. |
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| This was part of Oriel, a kingdom meant to be free from enroachment under the treaty. |
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| Tancred, King of Sicily, the last Norman monarch, made Malta a fief of the kingdom and installed a count of Malta. |
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| De Courcy marched north at speed, into kingdom of Ulaid, and captured the town of Downpatrick. |
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| It is believed that the north Pennines were under the control of the kingdom of Rheged. |
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| Apart from the Gododdin, the kingdom of Alt Clut occupied the Strathclyde area and Rheged covered parts of Galloway, Lancashire and Cumbria. |
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| By the early 970s, after a decade of Edgar's 'peace', it may have seemed that the kingdom of England was indeed made whole. |
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| We need in this kingdom only priests and schoolteachers, and no merchandise, unless it is wine and flour for Mass. |
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| As the kingdom became one they brought the monastic and spiritual life of the kingdom under one rule and stricter control. |
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| Qatar's pearls provided the kingdom with one of its main sources of income. |
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| King Magnus continued the fight after the death of his father and refused several offers from Sverre to divide the kingdom between them. |
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| His financial situation was not dire, but his kingdom was devastated and his army severely weakened. |
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| The region includes the West Country and much of the ancient kingdom of Wessex. |
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| Kindah was a tribal kingdom that was established in the Najd in central Arabia. |
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| Statistics on poverty in the kingdom are not available through the UN resources because the Saudi government does not issue any. |
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| The new kingdom was reliant on limited agriculture and pilgrimage revenues. |
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| By the mid 21st century BC, the Akkadian speaking kingdom of Assyria had risen to dominance in northern Iraq. |
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| Foreign Muslims who have resided in the kingdom for ten years may apply for Saudi citizenship. |
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| The Warsangali Sultanate was a kingdom centered in northeastern and in some parts of southeastern Somalia. |
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| With its capital at Yeha, the kingdom developed irrigation schemes, used plows, grew millet, and made iron tools and weapons. |
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| Mei Li ran happily down the hill. Surely, if the fortune sticks said she was going to rule a kingdom she would. |
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| He also mentioned that the Adal kingdom had its capital in Zeila, a port city in the northwestern Awdal region abutting Djibouti. |
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| The Kingdom of Bohemia was, as the only kingdom in the Holy Roman Empire, a significant regional power during the Middle Ages. |
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| In 1815, the colony was elevated to the rank of kingdom upon the formation of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves. |
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| In the European part of the kingdom two other regional languages are recognised under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. |
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| As time passed that kingdom incorporated others to the southern territories. |
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| Phiros became related by marriage to Espan, the nephew of king Heracles, who also ruled over a kingdom in Spain. |
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| After the fall of Cordoba, the Zirids took over Granada in 1013, forming the Zirid kingdom of Granada. |
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| The young Bates embarks on a Frodoesque mission to reclaim the kingdom of Middlefinger, of which he is the rightful heir. |
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| After the 11th century, Scotia was used mostly for the kingdom of Alba or Scotland, and in this way became the fixed designation. |
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| A theology developed that saw the kingdom as in a covenant relationship with God. |
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| Subsequently, Charles' absence from Scotland and use of commissioners to rule his northern kingdom undermined the authority of the body. |
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| As a translation of Alba, Scotia could mean both the whole kingdom belonging to the King of Scots, or just Scotland north of the Forth. |
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| Prior to the Viking Age, the main power in Pictland appears to have been the kingdom of Fortriu. |
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| Cabral promises to make the Trimumpara Raja of Cochin the ruler of kingdom of Calicut, upon the city's capture. |
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| At the same time Carausius successfully defended his island kingdom against barbarian invasions. |
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| The growing power of the Mercian kingdom to the south added to the problems faced by Northumbrian kings. |
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| By the time of his death, the Scottish monarchy was stronger, and the kingdom and royal finances more prosperous than might have seemed possible. |
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| In practice, the King of France sometimes gave that portion of his kingdom to a close member of his family, who then did homage to the king. |
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| The history of the fourth group, the Britons of Alt Clut, later the kingdom of Strathclyde, leaves little trace in the record. |
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| Richard Oram has conjectured that David's ultimate aim was to bring the whole of the ancient kingdom of Northumbria into his dominion. |
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| Whatever the case, David's claim to be heir to the Scottish kingdom was doubtful. |
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| For his part, Edward agreed that he would return control of both kingdom and castles to the successful claimant within two months. |
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| This was necessary to prevent the kingdom being split equally amongst the heirs as Hastings was suggesting should be done. |
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| The small Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan introduced a policy of Gross National Happiness more than twenty years ago. |
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| The kingdom thrived for a few centuries, and formed a springboard for Christianisation of the mainland. |
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| During this period Moray may for a time have been either an independent kingdom or a highly autonomous vassal of Alba. |
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| His son Erispoe secured the independence of the new kingdom of Brittany and won the Battle of Jengland against Charles the Bald. |
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| Marganus and Cunedagius divide the kingdom between themselves, but soon quarrel and go to war with each other. |
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| A gradual shift of power during the 8th century led the kingdom of the Franks to evolve into the Carolingian Empire. |
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| In the Early Middle Ages, Cumberland formed the core of the Brittonic kingdom of Rheged. |
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| Rachel Bromwich discusses a similar tale, that of the submergence of the kingdom of Helig ap Glanawg in the Conwy estuary. |
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| In Chronicles, Macbeth is portrayed as struggling to support the kingdom in the face of King Duncan's ineptitude. |
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| When Gwgon drowned without heir in 872, Rhodri became steward over the kingdom and able to install his son, Cadell ap Rhodri, as a subject king. |
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| In 585, the Visigothic King Leovigild invaded the Suebic kingdom of Galicia and defeated it, bringing it under Visigoth control. |
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| Since then basically the emblem of the kingdom would be kept until nowadays. |
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| She sighed audibly when the merprince rescued the young mermaid and whisked her away to his kingdom as his bride, thus ending the story. |
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| On his death in 1197, though, Rhys redivided his kingdom among his several sons and none of them ever again rivalled his power. |
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| At 20, at 30, at 40 and at 50 he had shown himself master of his world, and his kingdom was never usurped. |
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| The kingdom was administered under Welsh custom through thirteen Cantrefi each containing, in theory, one hundred settlements or Trefi. |
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| The unified kingdom of Denmark emerged in the 10th century as a proficient seafaring nation in the struggle for control of the Baltic Sea. |
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| Commerce was flourishing in the kingdom and the rising merchant class was made up largely of haole rather than Hawaiians. |
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| The perennial problem, however, was the status of Gascony within the kingdom of France, and Edward's role as the French king's vassal. |
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| Amen, amen, I say to thee, except a man be born again, he can not see the kingdom of God. |
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| As the King left the country with a greatly reduced force, the kingdom seemed to be on the verge of civil war. |
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| The loan demonstrates, in regard to instrumental resources, the competency of this kingdom to the assertion of the common cause. |
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| Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. |
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| Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ. |
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| Meanwhile, the fiscal pressure on the kingdom caused by Edward's expensive alliances led to discontent at home. |
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| From this time the kingdom of England, as well as its successor state the United Kingdom, functioned in effect as a constitutional monarchy. |
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| Article 25 provided that all laws of either kingdom that may be inconsistent with the Articles in the Treaty are to be declared void. |
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| In 1092, William II led an invasion of Strathclyde, a Celtic kingdom in what is now southwest Scotland and Cumbria. |
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| Upon his accession, he inherited use of the arms of the kingdom undifferenced. |
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| Also after the accession of George I to the throne of Great Britain in 1714, the kingdom was in a personal union with the Electorate of Hanover. |
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| The Lombards had been thoroughly Romanized, and their kingdom was stable and well developed. |
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| Each of these four dialects was associated with an independent kingdom on the island. |
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| By treaty the principality was obliged to pay the kingdom large annual sums. |
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| The Dinefwr dynasty under king Hywel Dda would unite Dyfed and Seisyllwg into the kingdom of Deheubarth in the early 10th century. |
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| They eventually organised it as the kingdom of England in the face of Viking invasions. |
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| Fungal reproduction is complex, reflecting the differences in lifestyles and genetic makeup within this diverse kingdom of organisms. |
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| In the early 9th century Mercia was displaced as the foremost kingdom by Wessex. |
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| The most important constitutional change during the transition from kingdom to republic involved a new form of chief magistrate. |
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| He also tells us that the Bodunni, a tribe or kingdom who were tributary to the Catuvellauni, switched sides. |
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| In 1492 the joint rulers conquered the Moorish kingdom of Granada, which had been providing Castile with African goods through tribute. |
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| With the expulsion of the English, Charles VII had reestablished his kingdom as the foremost power of Western Europe. |
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| We do not know who the centurions who pillaged the kingdom were and who sent them. |
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| In the kingdom of Northumbria, these two traditions coexisted, and each had been encouraged by different royal houses. |
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| The Burgundians expanded their kingdom in the Rhone valley and the Vandals took the remains of the Diocese of Africa. |
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| Similarly, the French would have Scotland's support if their own kingdom was attacked. |
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| The Vikings drove Burgred from his kingdom in 874 and Ceolwulf II took his place. |
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| During the decades that followed his death in around 624, East Anglia became increasingly dominated by the powerful kingdom of Mercia. |
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| During this period Wessex continued its gradual advance to the west, overwhelming the British kingdom of Dumnonia. |
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| The Parliamentarians were victorious, Charles I was executed and the kingdom replaced by the Commonwealth. |
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| At the Battle of Nesjar, in 1016, Olaf Haraldsson won the kingdom of Norway from the Danes. |
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| Although the kingdom of Essex was one of the kingdoms of the Heptarchy, its history is not well documented. |
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| Edward crossed the English Channel to France in January, leaving Gaveston as his custos regni in charge of the kingdom in his absence. |
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| For a brief period in the 8th century the kingdom encompassed the Kentish Kingdom to the South. |
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| Saxon occupation of land that was to form the kingdom had begun by the early 5th century at Mucking and other locations. |
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| After the death of Saebert in AD 616, Mellitus was driven out and the kingdom reverted to paganism. |
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| The kingdom of Essex grew by the absorption of smaller subkingdoms or Saxon tribal groups. |
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| It symbolized the Tudor's right to rule as well the uniting of the kingdom after the Wars of the Roses. |
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| The kingdom of Mercia, under Penda, became established around Lichfield, and initially established strong alliances with the Welsh kings. |
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| Shortly thereafter, Olaf was back in business, having regained the kingdom of York. |
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| In the early Viking Age, before Harald Fairhair, Hardanger was a petty kingdom with its capital at Kinsarvik. |
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| In the final years of his reign, Henry was increasingly infirm and focused on securing peace within the kingdom and his own religious devotions. |
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| The ancient kingdom of Magadha is heavily mentioned in Jain and Buddhist texts. |
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