Between the 4th and 19th centuries, Armenia was conquered and ruled by, among others, Persians, Byzantines, Arabs, Mongols, and Turks. |
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Before that time comes, he will have conquered our kingdom and our people and our cities, and kept them under by force of arms for many years. |
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Hungary was then regarded at Vienna as a conquered realm, whose naturally rebellious inhabitants could only be kept under by force of arms. |
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They successfully conquered East Anglia, but were thwarted by the first range of hills. |
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When the Greeks conquered Egypt they recognised in him attributes of their medicine god Asclepius, and continued to build temples to him. |
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He conquered his wariness of the press and now thrives in the media spotlight which came to be turned on him so frequently. |
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Only a small part of the conquered territories suffered outright annexation. |
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When Edward I of England conquered Scotland, he divided it into four justiciarships of two justiciars each. |
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For some time the land had been conquered by second-wave Indoeuropean populations such as a type of Sabellians called Bruttii. |
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Chuck Walsh conquered every player he went up against and was able to sack Windsor's quarterback twice. |
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The Matabeles are an off-shoot of the once mighty Zulus who conquered most of southern Africa in the early 19th Century. |
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After Alexander conquered the city, he had Batis tied to a chariot and dragged round the city's walls until he died an excruciating death. |
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Medicine had conquered the dread infectious diseases that once cut swathes through entire populations. |
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In the third century A.D., Asiatic Huns replaced the Goths and were in turn conquered by Turkic Avars in the sixth century. |
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In his zeal to accumulate wealth, Mahmud neglected to administer to the lands he had conquered. |
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Hippolyta is the conquered queen of Amazons who marries Theseus and returns to Athens with him. |
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Even Ostrogoth and Lombard kings, their barbarian ways tamed by the people they were supposed to have conquered, built houses in Bellagio. |
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Mary and Tom Coogan's story is an inspirational tale of a true and deep love that conquered tragedy. |
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But M.G. Anand conquered the illness, as he overcame a lame leg when he was just two years old. |
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Their Aymara and Quechua roots go back to the Inca Empire that was conquered by the Spanish conquistadors 500 years ago. |
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Napoleon was a universalist who believed in a common civil code for all his conquered subjects. |
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Historically, conquering armies have seized inhabitants of conquered areas and enslaved them. |
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Twenty years later they were to be left with no more than the recently conquered Canada, as their old colonies rebelled and established the new United States of America. |
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There he established a world renowned centre for rheumatic fever and later, when rheumatic fever was conquered, for children and adults with chronic forms of arthritis. |
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Buddhist monks spend twenty years living ascetically and meditating for hours at a time before they presume to believe that they have conquered all selfish desires. |
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Finally the Grand Dukes of Russia, through a successive line of splendid leaders and rulers of Rurik descent, had gradually defeated, conquered and subjugated. |
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Rather, human trafficking, like slavery in the past, is a way of demoralizing the conquered. |
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There are unconfirmed reports ISIS has stolen three fighter planes from Iraqi bases it conquered. |
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France had been conquered in less than six weeks, America didn't like getting involved in world affairs, and Japan was a warlike nation hell-bent on conquest. |
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Friendly terms were maintained, however, and together they made war against the common enemy, the Avars, conquered them and finally established their own state. |
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Finally, around the middle of the eleventh century, a confederation of tribes called the Almoravids conquered all of Morocco, as well as much of Spain. |
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At the time, before ISIS had conquered Mosul, the second-largest city in Iraq, the attack evoked outrage but not hysteria. |
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When the Inca conquered Ecuador in the fifteenth century, they introduced the Quechua language and imposed a tax system in which payments were made in human labor. |
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Eventually, Charles apparently conquered his physical infirmity, which might have been caused by rickets. |
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Others, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and the Papal States, were conquered and annexed. |
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It conquered Switzerland and most of Italy, setting up a series of puppet states. |
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By contrast the French financial system was inadequate and Napoleon's forces had to rely in part on requisitions from conquered lands. |
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In December 1941, Japan attacked the United States and European colonies in the Pacific Ocean, and quickly conquered much of the Western Pacific. |
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The British were driven from the Balkans after Germany conquered the Greek island of Crete by the end of May. |
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By June, the Japanese had conquered the province of Henan and begun a new attack on Changsha in the Hunan province. |
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It seeks the systematic and total destruction of those conquered by Hitler and it does not treaty with the nations which it has subdued. |
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England however was slowly conquered around the turn of the first millennium AD, and eventually became a feudal possession of Denmark. |
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The remnants of the Duchy of Normandy, which conquered England, remain associated to the English Crown as the Channel Islands to this day. |
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When King Henry V conquered Harfleur in 1415, he ordered the inhabitants to leave and imported English immigrants to replace them. |
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His campaigns conquered much French territory, but by 1374, all the gains had been lost. |
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During the First Punic War, the island was conquered after harsh fighting by Marcus Atilius Regulus. |
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During the Migration Period as the Western Roman Empire declined, Malta came under attack and was conquered or occupied a number of times. |
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Now Egypt was conquered by the Roman Empire, and for the Romans, a new era had begun. |
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Trajan conquered Dacia, and defeated the king Decebalus, who had defeated Domitian's forces. |
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Diocletian expelled the Persians who plundered Syria and conquered some barbarian tribes with Maximian. |
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In this phase of the war the West Saxons conquered land by building and holding burhs from which to threaten and dominate Danish territory. |
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The Roman Empire conquered most of Britain in the 1st century, but did not conquer Ireland or the far north of Britain. |
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In 754, at the urgent request of Pope Stephen, the Frankish king Pepin the Short conquered the Lombards. |
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In the 16th century, Shewa and the rest of Abyssinia were conquered by the forces of Ahmed Gurey of the Adal Sultanate to the northwest. |
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Theseus himself is the bridegroom of the play who has left the labyrinth and promiscuity behind, having conquered his passion. |
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The Ottoman Empire conquered most of the Genoese overseas territories during the 15th century. |
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In the same century the Republic conquered many settlements in Crimea, where the Genoese colony of Caffa was established. |
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In exchange for his homage and fealty, Rollo legally gained the territory which he and his Viking allies had previously conquered. |
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Egypt was conquered by the Ottoman Turks in 1517, after which it became a province of the Ottoman Empire. |
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The issue was for practical purposes resolved on 17 June 1523, as Swedish King Gustav Vasa conquered the city of Stockholm. |
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In 1066, William II of Normandy invaded and conquered England, becoming William I of England, also known as William the Conqueror. |
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In 627, Edwin of Northumbria conquered the Isle of Man along with most of Mercia. |
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The ancient Romans knew of the island and called it Insula Manavia although it is uncertain whether they conquered the island. |
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The Norman warlords affirmed their loyalty to Henry and handed over the territory they had conquered to him. |
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After the capture and execution of Wallace in 1305, Scotland seemed to have been finally conquered and the revolt calmed for a period. |
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Wales became a part of England when the Tudor dynasty conquered the region. |
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Serbia was conquered in a little more than a month, as the Central Powers, now including Bulgaria, sent in 600,000 troops total. |
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In alliance with Italy and smaller Axis powers, Germany conquered most of Europe by 1940 and threatened Great Britain. |
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Reichskommissariats took control of conquered areas, and a German administration was established in what was left of Poland. |
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They quickly conquered Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Belgium, and France surrendered on 22 June. |
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The invasion conquered a huge area, including the Baltic republics, Belarus, and West Ukraine. |
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Food was in short supply in the conquered areas of the Soviet Union and Poland, with rations inadequate to meet nutritional needs. |
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The Luftwaffe now had to establish or restore bases in the conquered territories, and rebuild their strength. |
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The Umayyad dynasty conquered the Maghreb, the Iberian Peninsula, Narbonnese Gaul and Sindh. |
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The Shia Safavid dynasty rose to power in 1501 and later conquered all of Iran. |
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Zoroastrianism was the state religion of the Sassanid dynasty which lasted until 651, when Persia was conquered by the Rashidun Caliphate. |
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His views on the position of the Welsh people, as a conquered people are never far below the surface. |
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In the late 4th century BC, Alexander the Great conquered the region, putting it under Hellenistic Seleucid rule for over two centuries. |
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It has also conquered 13 South American Championships, and many other tournaments. |
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The colonial architecture of Brazil dates to the early 16th century when Brazil was first explored, conquered and settled by the Portuguese. |
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In 10th century Boleslaus I, Duke of Bohemia conquered Moravia, Silesia and expanded farther to the east. |
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The Ottomans absorbed some of the traditions, art and institutions of cultures in the regions they conquered, and added new dimensions to them. |
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Swayze, of course, is the being of pure awesome who has by now conquered all of Heaven. |
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The blue men of Mica II discriminated against Earthies, considered them inferior since the Micans had conquered the Earthies a hundred years ago. |
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And after that he conquered all Scotlond, and made the Kynge of Scottes his liege man, to do him fewte and homage as he ought of right. |
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Wales is not represented in the Union Flag, as Wales had been conquered and annexed to England prior to the formation of the United Kingdom. |
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In exchange for his homage and fealty, Rollo legally gained the territory he and his Viking allies had previously conquered. |
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In 1415, Ceuta was conquered by the Portuguese aiming to control navigation of the African coast. |
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In 1511, Afonso de Albuquerque conquered Malacca for Portugal, then the centre of Asian trade. |
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Philip's troops conquered the important trading cities of Bruges and Ghent. |
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They conquered and ruled parts of it, acknowledging the overlordship of the Norman kings of England but with considerable local independence. |
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Madyan was conquered and settled by Muslims, but the environment was considered harsh and the settlers moved to Kufa. |
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A Saxon king named Eadwacer conquered Angers in 463 only to be dislodged by Childeric I and the Salian Franks, allies of the Roman Empire. |
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Consequently, the Dumnonii probably retained a greater degree of political autonomy than the forcibly conquered tribes living to the east. |
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Under Caesar the Romans conquered Celtic Gaul, and from Claudius onward the Roman empire absorbed parts of Britain. |
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The Silures were not finally conquered until circa AD 76 when Sextus Julius Frontinus' long campaign against them began to have success. |
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Caesar conquered no territory and left no troops behind but he established clients and brought Britain into Rome's sphere of influence. |
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In the following years, the Romans conquered more of the island, increasing the size of Roman Britain. |
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Tacitus records that the Iceni were not conquered in the Claudian invasion of AD 43, but had come to a voluntary alliance with the Romans. |
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Under Egbert, Surrey, Sussex, Kent, Essex, and Mercia, along with parts of Dumnonia, were conquered. |
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In 829 he conquered Mercia, driving its King Wiglaf into exile, and secured acknowledgement of his overlordship from the king of Northumbria. |
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In 927 Edward's successor Athelstan conquered Northumbria, bringing the whole of England under one ruler for the first time. |
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From the late 8th century, Sussex seems to have absorbed the Kingdom of the Haestingas, after the region was conquered by the Mercian king Offa. |
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By 878, the Vikings had overrun East Anglia, Northumbria, and Mercia, and nearly conquered Wessex. |
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Once England had been conquered, the Normans faced many challenges in maintaining control. |
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They joined the fleet that had previously conquered Corfu and attacked Dyrrachium from land and sea, devastating everything along the way. |
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In the visual arts, the Normans did not have the rich and distinctive traditions of the cultures they conquered. |
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The autonomous and troublesome duchy of Aquitaine was conquered by the Franks in 769, after a series of revolts against their suzerainty. |
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Henry II had conquered Brittany and taken control of Gisors and the Vexin, which had been part of Margaret's dowry. |
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Richard's troops, led by Guy de Lusignan, conquered the whole island by 1 June. |
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Lower Normandy was quickly conquered, and Rouen was cut off from Paris and besieged. |
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Arab logicians had inherited Greek ideas after they had invaded and conquered Egypt and the Levant. |
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Portugal's South American colony, Brazil, was partially conquered by both France and the United Provinces. |
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Algeria had been formally under French rule since 1830, but only in 1852 was the country entirely conquered. |
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From 772 onwards, Charles conquered and eventually defeated the Saxons to incorporate their realm into the Frankish kingdom. |
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These decrees, equally applicable to Franks and Romans, first established equality between conquerors and conquered. |
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Charlemagne conquered Corsica and Sardinia at an unknown date and in 799 the Balearic Islands. |
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Rurik's relative Oleg conquered Kiev in 882 and established the state of Kievan Rus', which was later ruled by Rurik's descendants. |
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Early among these were Saxony and Bavaria, which had been conquered by Charlemagne. |
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They founded the Kingdom of the Burgundians, which was conquered in the 6th century by another Germanic tribe, the Franks. |
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In 496, the Alemanni were conquered by Frankish leader Clovis and incorporated into his dominions. |
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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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Wherever France conquered, Italian republics were set up, with constitutions and legal reforms. |
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Following Roman rule, Sicily and Sardinia were conquered by the Vandals, then by the Ostrogoths, and finally by the Byzantines. |
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In 1809, eastern Sweden was conquered by Russia in the Finnish War, after which Finland became the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland. |
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In 1440, Uri conquered the Leventina Valley from the Visconti, dukes of Milan. |
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The Spanish Empire conquered several coastal cities between the 16th and 18th centuries. |
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In 1798, the revolutionary French government conquered Switzerland and imposed a new unified constitution. |
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In summer 779, Charlemagne again went into Saxony and conquered Eastphalia, Engria, and Westphalia. |
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Thompson, who stated that the Huns could never have conquered Europe without iron armor and weapons. |
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Ethnic Germans were also sent by her in organised colonisation attempts aiming at Germanisation of conquered Polish areas. |
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In 1515, Afonso de Albuquerque conquered the Huwala state of Hormuz at the head of the Persian Gulf, establishing it as a vassal state. |
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He likewise conquered the Portuguese possessions of Elmina Castle, Saint Thomas, and Luanda and Angola. |
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When a revolt in Constantinople halted his dynastic project, he again invaded Thrace and conquered Adrianople. |
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He subsequently overthrew Persian King Darius III and conquered the Achaemenid Empire in its entirety. |
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The royal army, split into several forces, easily conquered Aversa and even Alife, the base of the natural rebel leader, Ranulf. |
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In 1016 an alliance of Pisa and Genoa defeated the Saracens, conquered Corsica and gained control of the Tyrrhenian Sea. |
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Once that was achieved, disputes soon broke out over control of the conquered territories. |
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In the autumn of 1381, a Ming army invaded and conquered Yunnan, which was then ruled by the Mongol prince Basalawarmi, Prince of Liang. |
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By 1279, they conquered the Song dynasty and brought all of China under control of the Yuan dynasty. |
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Oka Buryats revolted in 1767 and Russia completely conquered the Buryat region in the late 18th century. |
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The Qing Empire conquered Upper Mongolia or the Oirat's Khoshut Khanate in the 1720s and 80,000 people were killed. |
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Various ancient states exacted tribute from the rulers of land which the state conquered or otherwise threatened to conquer. |
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Under Emperor Taizong, Tang general Li Jing conquered the Eastern Turkic Khaganate. |
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Under Emperor Gaozong, Tang general Su Dingfang conquered the Western Turkic Khaganate, which was an important ally of Byzantine empire. |
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In 1511, Afonso de Albuquerque conquered Malacca for Portugal, then the center of Asian trade. |
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During the 7th century the Sassanid Persian empire conquered the whole of the Persian Gulf, including southern and northern shores. |
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He conquered Coimbra and attacked the taifa kingdoms, often demanding the tributes known as parias. |
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It was not until after sporadic and consistent population resettlements had taken place that Toledo was decisively conquered. |
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Starting in 1084, the Almoravid Berbers ruled the region until 1147, when the Almohads conquered the land. |
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The Kingdom of Fez finally conquered the region in 1387, with assistance from the Crown of Aragon. |
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He had already conquered Persia, then under the Khwarezmian Empire's control, and was moving on towards Baghdad as well. |
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In the reign of his grandfather John I, Ceuta had been conquered from the king of Morocco, and now the new king wanted to expand the conquests. |
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But later the Saxons and the Germans conquered it, and after one of their queens, Angela, called it Anglia. |
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In 1637 it was conquered and remained by the Dutch, after the conquest of Elmina's main castle. |
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In 1442, however, Alfonso V conquered the Kingdom of Naples and unified Sicily and Naples once again as dependencies of Aragon. |
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It was gradually conquered by the Crown of Castile and dissolved with the 1491 Treaty of Granada, ending the Granada War. |
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In 1305, Granada conquered Ceuta, but lost control of the city in 1309 to the Kingdom of Fez with the assistance of the Crown of Aragon. |
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In 1147, as part of the Reconquista, crusader knights led by Afonso I of Portugal besieged and conquered Lisbon. |
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The city was conquered by the Visigoths in the early 5th century, becoming for a few years the capital of all Hispania. |
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Ferdinand was abandoned by all and also had to escape, and the Kingdom of Naples was conquered with surprising ease. |
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Other nations feared Gangaridai's huge force of the biggest elephants, and therefore, Gangaridai had never been conquered by any foreign king. |
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In August 1511 on behalf of the king of Portugal, Afonso de Albuquerque conquered Malacca, which at the time was the hub of Asian trade. |
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In August 1511, Afonso de Albuquerque conquered Malacca, which at the time was the hub of Asian trade, on behalf of the king of Portugal. |
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However, when the Jaga attacked and conquered regions of Kongo in 1568, Portuguese assisted Kongo in their defeat. |
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The revolution would see commoners take over the diplomacy of the French state, and of those conquered by revolutionary armies. |
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This marked the end of the Kingdom of Urartu as well, which was subsequently conquered and dissolved. |
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The greatest distinction of an empire is through the amount of land that a nation has conquered and expanded. |
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At the end of the Roman period the region was conquered by the Germanic Franks. |
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Later in his reign, the Bornu Empire conquered and made the state a tributary. |
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In 1729, Nader Shah, a chieftain and military genius from Khorasan, successfully drove out and conquered the Pashtun invaders. |
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In 1511, Malacca, then the centre of Asian trade, was conquered for Portugal by Afonso de Albuquerque. |
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After Moctezuma I succeeded Itzcoatl as the Mexica emperor, more reforms were instigated to maintain control over conquered cities. |
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Motecuzoma II spent most of his reign consolidating power in lands conquered by his predecessors. |
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This culture also reached its peak between 1200 and 1519, when it was conquered by the Spanish. |
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Outside was the palace of Moctezuma with 100 rooms, each with its own bath, for the lords and ambassadors of allies and conquered people. |
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Despite early attempts by the Mexica, the Tlaxcalteca were never conquered by the Aztec Triple Alliance. |
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The conquest and colony brought a mix of cultures and ethnicities that did not exist before the Spanish conquered the Peruvian territory. |
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Starting in 1532 and succeeding in 1533, Francisco Pizarro conquered the Inca Empire and claimed what we know today as Peru for Spain. |
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He defeated the Inca invasion force and in the process conquered and ruled the Inca Empire as Sapa Inca. |
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The following year he followed Goiti and Salcedo to Manila, after hearing the villages had been conquered. |
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In 1641, a WIC expedition sent from Brazil under command of Cornelis Jol conquered Portuguese Angola. |
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It was one of the successor states of the Golden Horde, and it came to an end when it was conquered by the Tsardom of Russia. |
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Over the next fourteen years, however, the Russians slowly conquered the Khanate. |
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It went on to subdue the much weakened Korea as its tributary, conquered Mongolia, and expanded its territory to the outskirt of the Great Wall. |
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But the Republic lost its independence when Napoleon Bonaparte conquered Venice on 12 May 1797 during the War of the First Coalition. |
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Florence was conquered by Charlemagne in 774 and became part of the Duchy of Tuscany, with Lucca as capital. |
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The area known as Manchuria in northeastern China was gradually conquered by the Jurchen chieftain Nurhaci. |
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The Aztec and Inca Empires were conquered during Charles' reign, from 1519 to 1521 and 1540 to 1558, respectively. |
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By the late 16th century the Bornu empire had expanded and recaptured the parts of Kanem that had been conquered by the Bulala. |
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The Luba political system was retained, and conquered peoples were integrated into the system. |
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When England was conquered by the Normans in 1066, it came under the influence of the most progressive and best governed system in Europe. |
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In 1600, the Chilean city of Valdivia was conquered by the Dutch pirate Sebastian de Cordes. |
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The Chola dynasty conquered southern India and successfully invaded parts of Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Bengal in the 11th century. |
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The early modern period began in the 16th century, when the Mughal Empire conquered most of the Indian subcontinent. |
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Dharmapala is believed to have conquered Kanauj and extended his sway up to the farthest limits of India in the northwest. |
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In the 13th century, the Mongol Empire had invaded and conquered most of Asia and Eastern Europe. |
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After success in a war by the victorious just and noble state, the text argues for humane treatment of conquered soldiers and subjects. |
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On October 13, he conquered the Legitimist capital of Granada and took effective control of the country. |
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In this process, they conquered and incorporated the long established clans of the country known to the Swazi as Emakhandzambili. |
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By 1838, the Rozwi Empire, along with the other smaller Shona states were conquered by the Ndebele and reduced to vassaldom. |
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On June 18, 1867, the French seized the rest of Cochinchina and conquered the Mekong Delta and later Hanoi. |
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The later empire of the Aztecs was built on neighbouring cultures and was influenced by conquered peoples such as the Toltecs. |
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In 1369, Timur, a Turkic leader in the Mongol military tradition, conquered most of the region and founded the Timurid Empire. |
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Having conquered Mercia, the Danes turned the settlement into a centre for military and administrative purposes, which was part of the Danelaw. |
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Who fought 'neath the green flag of Erin, and conquered the red, white and blue. |
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For the conquered Southern Netherlands the war ended in 1585 with the Fall of Antwerp. |
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A disagreement between these two political philosophies came to a head in 223 BC when the Qin state conquered all of China. |
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He conquered the far larger principality of Novgorod to the north, which had been allied to the hostile Lithuanians. |
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During the 5th and 6th centuries Surrey was conquered and settled by Saxons. |
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The Normans conquered the area that is now Cumbria in 1092 during the reign of William II and created the baronies of Kendal and Westmorland. |
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After the region was conquered in 15 BC, it was incorporated into Raetia, a large district which stretched from the central Alps to the Danube. |
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When he arrived in the Po area, there was an uprising amongst the freshly conquered Gauls. |
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Utilizing their great skills in shipbuilding and navigation they raided and conquered parts of France and the British Isles and Ireland. |
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He conquered Gotland, much to the displeasure of the League, which lost Visby, an important trading town located there. |
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Likewise, the inhabitants of conquered cities were frequently massacred during the Crusades against the Muslims in the 11th and 12th centuries. |
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German wildcard Sabine Lisicki conquered her nerves to defeat France's Marion Bartoli and take her amazing Wimbledon run into the semi-finals. |
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I present Bosnavina to its Duchess, I kiss the hem of her Majesty's robe and will tapestry her Palace with conquered flags. |
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The sanctuary of Tropaean Zeus was made by the Dorians after they had conquered the Amyclaeans and the rest of the Achaeans. |
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Matthew Ramage now hoped to become a mentor to help other drug users as he conquered his addiction to the drug. |
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Bryan Curtis on how darius Rucker, Kid Rock, and Jewel conquered country. |
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Roman influence was therefore continually extended as the borders of their conquered territory shifted significantly several times. |
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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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By 1304 Scotland had been conquered, but in 1306 Robert the Bruce seized the Scottish throne and the war was reopened. |
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However, Foederati states that had at one time been conquered by Rome were exempt from payment of tribute to Rome due to their treaty status. |
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The granting of citizenship to allies and the conquered was a vital step in the process of Romanization. |
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Massilia was allowed to keep its lands, but Rome added to its territories the lands of the conquered tribes. |
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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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Over the next few centuries, the Angles, Saxons and others gradually conquered and settled in eastern and southern Britain. |
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Roberts contended that the Bishops of St David's were never themselves conquered and retained their ancient temporal possessions. |
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When the Normans conquered the region in the 11th century they immediately built major castles at Chepstow and Monmouth to defend the territory. |
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Sabaean Mukarrib Karib'il Watar I conquered the entire realm of Awsan, and expanded Sabaean rule and territory to include much of South Arabia. |
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Shammar Yahri'sh had not conquered Hadramout, Najran, and Tihama until 275 AD, thus unifying Yemen and consolidating Himyarite rule. |
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Turan Shah conquered Zabid from the Mahdids in May 1174, then marched toward Aden in June and captured it from the Zurayids. |
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The Ottoman Empire conquered Egypt, hanging the last Mamluk Sultan in Cairo. |
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In 1282, Edward I of England conquered the principality of Wales and divided the area into counties. |
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Sea urchins have conquered most sea habitats, on an extremely wide range of depths. |
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Being sold into slavery was a common fate of populations conquered in wars. |
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The Vandals under Genseric conquered the Islands sometime between 461 and 468 during their war on the Roman Empire. |
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Rome annexed the area in 51 BCE, which held the region until 486, when the Germanic Franks conquered the region and formed the Kingdom of France. |
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During the Thirty Years' War, Sweden conquered approximately half of the Holy Roman states. |
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These events are often described as the consolidation of Sweden, although substantial areas were conquered and incorporated later. |
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During the early Middle Ages it came under Germanic rule but later, much of it was conquered by Moorish invaders from North Africa. |
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Ten years later, Afonso de Albuquerque conquered Goa in India, Muscat and Ormuz in the Persian Strait, and Malacca, now a state in Malaysia. |
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The paralympic athletes have also conquered many medals in sports like swimming, boccia, athletics and wrestling. |
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In the 15th century, the Ottomans conquered most of Greece, but their attempts to conquer the islands were largely unsuccessful. |
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In the beginning of 16th Century, all countries around Jade Bight were conquered by the Counts of Oldenburg. |
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Frankish troops conquered the area east of the Lauwers in 785, after Charlemagne defeated the Saxon leader Widukind. |
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They were later followed by the Bavarians and the Franks, who conquered and ruled most of Italy. |
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Caesar treated this as an aggressive move and, after an inconclusive engagement against the united tribes, he conquered the tribes piecemeal. |
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Despite scattered outbreaks of warfare the following year, Gaul was effectively conquered. |
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A Roman province was established in the conquered territory, and alliances made with nations outside direct Roman control. |
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He became the first king of all Franks in 509, after he had conquered Cologne. |
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The Gauls were finally conquered by Julius Caesar in the 50s BC despite a rebellion by the Arvernian chieftain Vercingetorix. |
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Darius I of Persia, who conquered Ancient Egypt, built a canal linking the Mediterranean to the Red Sea. |
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Until 1279, the Song were able to use their naval power to defend against the Jin to the north, until the Mongols finally conquered all of China. |
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Meanwhile, the Spanish armies had already conquered the important trading cities of Bruges and Ghent. |
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Antwerp, which was then the most important port in the world, also had to be conquered. |
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After the mainland was conquered, Germany invaded Crete in what is known as the Battle of Crete. |
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The absorption of neighboring local gods took place as the Roman state conquered the surrounding territory. |
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The Romans commonly granted the local gods of the conquered territory the same honors as the earlier gods of the Roman state religion. |
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The Mongol Empire conquered a large part of Asia in the 13th century, an area extending from China to Europe. |
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In the 17th century, the Manchu conquered China and established the Qing dynasty. |
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The eastern half of the basin was not conquered by the Romans, and was considered part of Sarmatia, inhabited by the Iazyges. |
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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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In the 50s BC, Aquitania was conquered by lieutenants of Julius Caesar and became part of the Roman Empire. |
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Josephus, dismissing these things, said that the only governor of the habitable earth was Vespasian who conquered it. |
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Between 1478 and 1497 the monarchs' forces conquered the three Canary Islands of Gran Canaria, La Palma and Tenerife. |
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Thus Aurobindo Ghose stated that the puritanical, pharisaical British conquered in the name of liberty and usurped under the cloak of altruism. |
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In 774, the Kingdom was conquered by the Frankish King Charlemagne and integrated into his Empire. |
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In the summer of 569, the Lombards conquered the main Roman centre of northern Italy, Milan. |
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Before then the Germanic kingdoms had frequently conquered each other, but none had adopted the title of King of another people. |
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In 1552, Russian tsar Ivan the Terrible conquered two major Tatar khanates, the Khanate of Kazan and the Astrakhan Khanate. |
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As the Red Army conquered the Reichstag in Berlin, Hitler committed suicide and Germany surrendered in early May. |
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The town had been conquered by the Romans in the late 4th century BC and was given Roman citizenship without voting rights. |
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Poorer citizens were drawn to lifelong service, as they were rewarded with the prospect of settlement in conquered land. |
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Remnants of the Gepids were conquered by the Avars later in the 6th century. |
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Russia eventually conquered the south of Ukraine and Crimea, and renamed them as New Russia. |
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By 1541, the entire Balkan peninsula and most of Hungary had been conquered and integrated into the Ottoman Empire. |
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In 334 BC, the Macedonian Greek king Alexander the Great conquered the peninsula from the Achaemenid Persian Empire. |
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In 585 the Visigoths conquered the Suebic Kingdom of Galicia, and thus controlled almost all of Hispania. |
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Ariovistus refused to comply, asserting the right of conquest and the right of the conqueror to exact tribute from the conquered. |
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When the Romans finally conquered Pannonia in 8 AD, the Boii seem not to have opposed them. |
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Victory in battle was not always a permanent success, as newly conquered territories were constantly retaken by Rome's enemies in Germania. |
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This was supported by numerous auxiliary units of 500 soldiers each, often recruited from recently conquered areas. |
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He did so, executing the conspirators, but within two years also conquered the region and incorporated it into his domain. |
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In 1510, Afonso de Albuquerque conquered Goa in India, Ormuz in the Persian Strait, and Malacca. |
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The Ottomans moved through the Morea and conquered virtually the entire Despotate by the summer. |
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He conquered most or all of the neighbouring Frankish tribes along the Rhine and incorporated them into his kingdom. |
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By the 490s, Clovis I had conquered and united all these territories in the southern Netherlands in one Frankish kingdom, and from there continued his conquests into Gaul. |
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Most of Great Britain was conquered in the first year of the invasion. |
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In the newly conquered region, the old system of encomienda was imposed. |
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The Viking impact on the north was greater than in the south, and in the north, the Vikings actually conquered and made permanent territorial gains. |
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In the decades following unification, Italy started to create colonies in Africa, and under Benito Mussolini's fascism conquered Ethiopia founding in 1936 the Italian Empire. |
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His plea was successful and he received not only a license for the proposed expedition, but also authority over any lands conquered during the venture. |
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The Spanish Empire conquered the region in the 16th century and established a Viceroyalty that encompassed most of its South American colonies, with its capital in Lima. |
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During the course of these campaigns he conquered the western Britons still in Devon and reduced those beyond the River Tamar, now Cornwall, to the status of a vassal. |
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The Vandals conquered Sicily, and their fleet became a constant danger to Roman sea trade and to the coasts and islands of the western Mediterranean. |
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Both areas were conquered by Gruffydd ap Llywelyn in about 1055, but on his death in 1063, Morgannwg, the union between Gwent and Glywysing, was reconstituted. |
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In 883, he conquered the Drevlians, imposing a fur tribute on them. |
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