Malaysia's government is nominally headed by the king whose position rotates among the nine hereditary Malay rulers every five years. |
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Special rulers are available for cutting geometric shapes, angles, bias strips, mitered corners and squared-off fabric panels. |
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In 762 AD the new rulers, called the Abbasid caliphs, founded a new capital city on the river Tigris. |
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They are sure that the power that they wield as rulers has won the battle against this one who blasphemes. |
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Pilgrimage, in his view, was an integral part of Angevin kingship, not an experience in which rulers distanced themselves from it. |
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The two rulers of the Kingdoms of Italy and Naples would not succeed in accomplishing those goals either. |
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Not surprisingly, England's first female rulers, the sixteenth-century Tudor queens Mary I and Elizabeth I, assumed power as single women. |
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The Ottoman system had no hereditary aristocracy, and its rulers worked hard to make sure that one did not arise. |
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The cabinet was horrified when dockers blacked the jets destined for the military rulers. |
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The Muscat rulers established trading posts on the Persian coast and also exercised a measure of control over the Makran coast. |
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It is now a residence of the former rulers and part of it has been transformed into a luxurious five-star hotel. |
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The modern day rulers of this lawless land, like the nobility of old, prosecute the juiciest targets. |
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The jheel might have been maintained properly by the rulers, but after 1947-48, it has always been neglected. |
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Ethnic Shan rulers, who established a political center at Ava, filled the ensuing political vacuum for a short time. |
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It is naive to think that the new rulers in Kabul will willingly hand power over to some rainbow coalition of their ethnic rivals. |
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The rulers of Champassak and Luang Prabang remained in control but had to pay periodical tribute to Bangkok. |
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The new breed of politicians should no longer be wet behind the ears and need to start acting like experienced rulers. |
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These grand, leather-bound folios are monuments to the importance that rulers placed on record keeping. |
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Provinces won in war could later be milked of tribute to enrich the Roman state and its rulers and to buy off any risk of discontent at home. |
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Most practitioners are aware of and use traditional methods, such as tracings and rulers, to evaluate wound surface area. |
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With increasing education levels, and rising standards of living China's fascist rulers are on a sticky wicket. |
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Democratic movements had started out with the noble intentions of ending the tyranny of autocratic rulers. |
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Land ownership was redistributed to British-selected zamindars, by using excuses of human rights abuses of the prior owners or rulers. |
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The title was also used of Tatar khans, Biblical kings, and of various rulers in folk genres. |
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Evidently, we have a powerful desire to portray fearsome beasts of prey as rulers of prehistoric nature. |
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Their interests lie not in backing either of the rival armies facing each other in Kashmir, but in confronting the rulers who hold them down. |
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The Africans began to see themselves not as Hausas, Igbos, or Yorubas, but as Nigerians in a common struggle against their colonial rulers. |
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Starting July 1st, two female personnel with rulers stand at the ticket windows to determine whether the length of the skirt earns a discount. |
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The Mughals had vanquished the Hindu rulers who had flourished since the time of the Yadavas. |
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Colonization broke the power of the traditional rulers, but social status is still partially determined by a person's family roots. |
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At this time it was necessary for scientists to obtain patronage from their kings, princes or rulers. |
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Subsequently, Akbar assimilated cultural patterns from earlier rulers, including sultanate kings and Rajput rulers. |
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Both were self-proclaimed rulers of their territories, and had come to blows in the past. |
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The Dutch rulers recruited army personnel from the Manadonese and Ambonese ethnic groups. |
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The traditional Malay rulers and the King were disempowered, when some scandals offered a political opportunity to do so. |
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Following the division of the Carolingian Empire in 843, the Ottonian rulers united their German kingship with the imperial crown. |
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The principle of divine kingship was maintained even when the king was replaced by rulers drawn from outside the family of the enthroned king. |
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This is why rulers institute withholding taxes, social security taxes, gasoline taxes, payroll taxes, sales taxes, value added taxes, etc. |
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Tampering tends to be the recourse of underdeveloped political forces or rulers that are weak or unable to afford the luxury of costly campaigns. |
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His concept can be used in meeting just demands of a people in their own independent country if the rulers fail in their duty. |
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The Egyptian priests and rulers were often buried with necklaces of waterlily blossoms, for the lilies symbolized resurrection from the dead. |
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I then showed them how to use a white pencil to trace circles of various sizes and straight lines with rulers. |
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Blood is spilled on the earth in old rites masked as simple superstition so as not to raise the ire of the Yahwist religious rulers of Samaria. |
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The most sophisticated organization was the church and sensible rulers devoted care to choice of archbishops and bishops. |
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Jobs are no longer guaranteed, even for the educated middle classes, and there is poverty right next to the opulent palaces of the rulers. |
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Prior to the modern period, states were justified by reference to their rulers, their dynasties, and their religion. |
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You write that in four of these five states the current rulers are former apparatchiks of the Communist Party. |
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This is a genuinely and proudly democratic country, and the people want to see their rulers behaving responsibly and in a seemly fashion. |
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Kings were expected to be rulers, law givers, judges, leaders of the war band and protector of the Church and people. |
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Luanda on the Angola coast was a Portuguese town from which they tried to exercise control over African rulers inland. |
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Many Rajput kings retained a status as rulers of princely states under the British. |
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He should look at the records of repressive rulers who keep the lid on too tightly. |
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They have instead exchanged their colonial rulers or puppet kings for corrupt local bourgeois cliques. |
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The local tributary rulers were deposed because they refused to pay their dues, and the ruler of Gilan was making overtures to the Ottomans. |
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An inquiry into the history of the idea of popular sovereignty as it has been shaped by the struggles between rulers and ruled. |
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The rulers of the British Empire fell for the sweet talk and sent the first shipload of British convicts to the Cape. |
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Like their ancestors, the scions of pre-Hispanic rulers were especially keen patrons. |
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In retaliation to killings of northerners in the South, the military rulers massacred thousands of southerners and many were brutally tortured. |
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The means used was to patronize local rulers, draw them into relations of personal loyalty to the Emperor, and encourage their sinicization. |
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Although the rulers of the empire were formally called emperors, they were still popularly referred to as tsars or tsarinas. |
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The rulers of the Chakri dynasty, who succeeded the kings of Ayyuthaya, assumed the throne name of Rama, a practice that continues to this day. |
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It was deployed by autocratic rulers as an instrument of deep and vast social control. |
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Machiavelli urged rulers to study human nature so that they could control politics by manipulating their subjects. |
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Even after the Meiji rulers imposed military rule in the 1930s, belief in democracy endured for many Japanese. |
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We are dazzled by the exotic regalia in which Indian rulers impressed the British court. |
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Four of Herod's sons ruled the kingdom divided into four tetrarchies, so the rulers were called tetrarchs, not kings. |
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Its rulers could not have been that lethargic, or its diplomacy so tortuous, for it to have survived for such a long period. |
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Earthly rulers wield lordship and exercise authority over those whom they rule. |
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Recognizing the emperor's vulnerability, he also chose to divide authority among four rulers, known as the tetrarchs. |
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The erstwhile British colonial rulers used the fort to try the freedom fighters after convicting them of treason. |
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A global democracy where most of the world is excluded by their own autocratic rulers is scarcely worth having. |
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But in other areas there will be total chaos because none of these autocratic rulers have any line of succession. |
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Manuscript illumination flourished under the patronage of the dukes of Burgundy, kings of England, Portuguese monarchs, and Hapsburg rulers. |
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The drop-off reflects deep disappointment that clerical establishment rulers have been able to largely thwart Khatami's efforts. |
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Kings and rulers are not simply those who are chosen but those who know how to rule. |
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In previous surveys, interviewers were armed with measuring cups, spoons, and rulers when they visited households. |
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Each case has been filled with much needed resources for the children including pens, pencils, rubbers, rulers and pencil sharpeners. |
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It is a country in which both rulers and ruled are equally arch-conservative. |
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Experience also shows that our present rulers and corporate magnates will not yield without a fight. |
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If ethnic differences are laid aside, it is likely the issue of religious observance that will keep Afghanistan's rulers busy for some time to come. |
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King in this Middle Eastern context meant a ruler who would deal despotically with them, a governor quite different from the constitutional rulers of Europe. |
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The domination of the new cabinet by Manchus and their Mongol allies seriously damaged the already weakening links between the Chinese and their foreign rulers. |
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The distinctive Basque culture was recognized by the rulers of Castile until the nineteenth century, when the Basques ' privileges were removed by the Spanish court. |
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They participated in the struggle to liberate India in language borrowed from or revitalized by their rulers. |
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Many rulers begin with economy drives, but are blown off course. |
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As revolution spread to Palermo, Milan and Naples it seemed as if the people of Italy could break the domination of the myriad of foreign rulers and domestic autocrats. |
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The leader decided that he would never lose power again and openly declared that he would accept support from anyone including bandits and evil rulers from other territories. |
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According to the human-rights group, the proposed law is harsher than those proposed by past rulers. |
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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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To soothe Acolhua civic and ethnic pride, Tetzcoco's rulers and historians conceived of their city as the empire's cultural capital, the true heir to Toltec civilization. |
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Knowing that Chinese rulers especially respected the mathematical sciences, he studied them diligently and became proficient at map-making and astronomy. |
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Clear plastic rulers and quilting templates can be a headache to store. |
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During this period, Malta was sold and resold to various feudal lords and barons and was dominated successively by the rulers of Swabia, Aquitaine, Aragon, Castile, and Spain. |
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Between 1882 and 1891, treaties were secured with all the main local rulers on the river's right bank, placing their lands under French protection. |
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In 1920, under a League of Nations mandate, the British ruthlessly crushed a Shi'ite uprising, installing members of the Sunni minority as rulers of Iraq. |
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Like philosophy, jokes look critically and without reverence at the authority claimed by rulers, policemen, mothers-in-law, teachers, psychiatrists and all kinds of experts. |
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I have hardly ever agreed with what Jeremy has written, but I do think that it's wonderful that we live in a free society where we can openly criticise our leaders and rulers. |
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Once feudal lords, the Malay rulers now perform a largely ceremonial role. |
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On that blood-soaked continent, the reigning monarchs and other despotic rulers thought up an ingenious system to perpetuate their oppressive systems of government. |
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Stamps serve to proclaim and legitimize the authority of rulers. |
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It had to be secured by purchase from the legitimate rulers of the tribes. |
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It told people when to move to new hunting grounds, when to plant crops, when to bury the dead, anoint new rulers, slaughter animals, make babies. |
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During those years, Napoleon reshaped the peninsula's map at will, changing borders, deposing rulers, annexing territories, and establishing new states. |
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Diplomatic dispatches at the time, written by men who had no reason to lie to their own rulers, reported no hump or withered arm. |
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Valens says that it is evident that the nativity is a notable one because all the triplicity rulers are in their own signs and two of them are angular. |
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Marshal appears in many of the sources regarding these rulers, and therefore, it seems, much can be verified. |
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In both countries, the rulers place the accumulation of wealth far ahead of the welfare of the nation. |
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Advancement in science and technology was also sought by the rulers, and the Han invented paper, used water clocks and sundials, and developed a seismograph. |
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The director has interpreted Oberon's fairyland as a dark and earthy realm, the fairies all in tattered Gothic black, their rulers quarreling jealously. |
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Then he clears his throat ostentatiously and launches into his lecture on the Achaemenian dynasty, rulers of the Persian empire five centuries before Christ. |
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The Pope sacrificed the Jesuits in order to appease neighbouring rulers. |
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The country had plenty of experience with its rulers using puppet prosecutors and judges to railroad so-called enemies of the state into prison or worse. |
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It relieved humanity of the heavy load under which it was groaning and broke the fetters unjust rulers and ignorant lawgivers had put around its feet. |
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The family that led the revolt made themselves rulers of the re-established judaean commonwealth. |
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Made of found objects such as handheld yellow flashlights, measuring tape, wire and rulers, the intricate hodgepodge of elements seems about to peel away from the walls. |
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This is the language one traditionally associates with authoritarian rulers who regard social protests to be merely the work of irresponsible agitators. |
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An ample reference section at the end of the book contains lists of rulers including emperors, ecclesiastics, caliphs, khans, and kings of Serbia. |
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The kings and rulers of this world are not necessarily happy men. |
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He urged workers around the world to revolt against their rulers. |
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Across the country thousands upon thousands of polling stations are closing and votes are beginning to be counted to determine the new rulers of the country. |
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Century-old photographs show the dignified ruin of the memorial to one of ancient Egypt's few female rulers, a building then recently excavated from the sands. |
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Following a well-established formula for regal portraits, Winterhalter created distant yet elegant formal likenesses of the rulers in full regalia. |
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The converts among the merchants and nomadic rulers built temples, pagodas and cave sanctuaries carved into the canyon cliffs and mountains along the Yellow River. |
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They brought back many foreign ambassadors whose kings and rulers were willing to declare themselves tributaries of China. |
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After the fleet's return, rulers of 18 countries sent envoys bearing tribute to the Ming court. |
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Admiral Zheng He was dispatched with imperial letters, silk brocade, silk floss, silk gauze, and other gifts for the rulers of these countries. |
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Those rulers who submitted received political protection and material rewards. |
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In the process of the Mongols invasion of China proper, many Han Chinese men and women were enslaved by the Mongols rulers. |
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The rulers of the western khanates acknowledged Kublai's victory and rule in Mongolia. |
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Mikhail, the Grand Prince of Tver, who ascended the throne of Vladimir in 1305, was one of the most beloved of medieval Russian rulers. |
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Along with the dissolution of the Ilkhanate in Persia, Mongol rulers in China and the Chagatai Khanate were also in turmoil. |
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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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The medieval Mongol rulers of Russia likewise only expected tribute from the Russian states, which continued to govern themselves. |
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The Phanariotes, as they were called, provided many capable advisers to the Ottoman rulers. |
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Alfonso's more aggressive policy towards the taifas worried the rulers of those kingdoms, who called on the African Almoravids for help. |
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Surrounded by their enemies, taifa rulers sent a desperate appeal to the Berber chieftain Yusuf ibn Tashfin, leader of the Almoravids. |
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The most beautiful ones often enjoyed a wealthy lifestyle, and became mistresses of the elite or even mothers to rulers. |
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In Mecca, Arab women were sold as slaves according to Ibn Butlan, and certain rulers in West Africa had slave girls of Arab origin. |
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The map was made for the rulers of Venice and Portugal, two of the main seafaring nations of the time. |
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In Cordoba, conflicts continued between the Berber rulers and those of the citizenry who saw themselves as Arab. |
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Traditionally, the main advisory body to the rulers of Castile was the Royal Council. |
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Instead, exchange of goods and services was based on reciprocity between individuals and among individuals, groups, and Inca rulers. |
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He had several sons and one daughter, who became rulers in different parts of his dominion. |
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The city was founded in the 15th century as a port on the banks of the Mandovi river by the rulers of the Bijapur Sultanate. |
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They were headed by the local rulers, rajas, who were subordinate to the Dutch advisors. |
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More importantly the British promised to support the rule of the Al Khalifa in Bahrain, securing its unstable position as rulers of the country. |
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In New Spain these grants were modeled after the tribute and corvee labor that the Mexica rulers had demanded from native communities. |
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The most powerful rulers had religious and political power, organizing construction of large ceremonial centers developed. |
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Manila was also the seat of power for most of the country's colonial rulers. |
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The Tondo district was the traditional capital of the empire, and its rulers were sovereign kings, not mere chieftains. |
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Pohnpeian legend recounts that the Saudeleur rulers, the first to bring government to Pohnpei, were of foreign origin. |
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Paramount rulers distinguished themselves from the extended nobility by prefixing the word k'uhul to their ajaw title. |
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In other instances, the victors would seize the defeated rulers, their families, and patron gods. |
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During the Early Classic, rulers were sometimes buried underneath the acropolis complex. |
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Some palaces possess associated hieroglyphic descriptions that identify them as the royal residences of named rulers. |
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Some rebellious kings were replaced by calpixqueh, or appointed governors rather than dynastic rulers. |
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After the death of Nezahualcoyotl, the Mexica Emperors had become the de facto rulers of the alliance. |
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However, the Totonacs chafed under Aztec rule, with Aztec rulers from Axayacatl to Moctezuma II having to send soldiers to quell rebellions. |
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Teteuctin were the highest class, rulers of various parts of the empire, including the king. |
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Northern China fragmented into a series of independent kingdoms, most of which were founded by Xiongnu, Xianbei, Jie, Di and Qiang rulers. |
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On the other hand, the Mongol rulers also adopted flexibly to a variety of cultures from many advanced civilizations within the vast empire. |
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Many kings and rulers used this radical shift in the understanding of the world to further consolidate their sovereignty over their territories. |
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Popes, who originally had no temporal powers, in some periods of history accrued wide powers similar to those of temporal rulers. |
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This practice had become common because often the prelates and secular rulers were also participants in public life. |
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Finally, Calvin taught that if rulers rise up against God they lose their divine right and must be deposed. |
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He communicated as easily with the ordinary people of his congregation as with rulers such as Philip of Hesse. |
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The rulers of Kerala, in appreciation of their assistance, had given to the Malankara Nazranis, three deeds on copper plates. |
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Their dream of a republic, a nation without hereditary rulers, with power derived from the people in frequent elections, was in doubt. |
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The Shunga rulers helped to establish the tradition of royal sponsorship of learning and art. |
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They were one of the first Indian states to issue coins struck with their rulers embossed. |
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The early rulers of this dynasty were Hindu, but the later rulers were strongly influenced by Jainism. |
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The Hindu rulers eventually exiled themselves to the Kashmir Siwalik Hills. |
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The Nawabs of Bengal had become the de facto rulers of Bengal following the decline of Mughal Empire. |
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This was achieved either by subsidiary alliances between the Company and local rulers or by direct military annexation. |
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The convenience of transport also enabled rulers to lead inspection tours to southern China. |
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While he supported the idea of government ruling by a virtuous king, his ideas contained a number of elements to limit the power of rulers. |
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Like Confucius, according to legend, he travelled throughout China for forty years to offer advice to rulers for reform. |
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Mencius's argument that unjust rulers may be overthrown is reminiscent of Socrates' argument in Book I of Plato's Republic. |
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Chinese rulers believed that wise emperors governed their officials rather than their subjects. |
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It would not be unusual political advice if Laozi literally intended to tell rulers to keep their people ignorant. |
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Many supernatural legends surround the history of alleged relics as they accompanied the spread of Buddhism and gave legitimacy to rulers. |
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His imperial reorganization saw authority divided between four rulers, the Tetrarchy, to oversee the recovery. |
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Unfortunately, there has never been in China acceptance of the peculiarly Anglophonic right to criticize one's rulers. |
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Perhaps this will give the sport's rulers the chance to readdress that issue of whether cranes should be allowed on the track during racing. |
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Putin and his KGB cronies are practically the absolute rulers of Mother Russia. |
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Gulf rulers frame the threat as a terrorism problem that the international community should confront kinetically and ideologically. |
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This was a period of Kushite rule, which means that Taharqa and his fellow rulers were from Nubia and drew their power-base from there. |
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His contemporary Suetonius wrote biographies of the 12 Roman rulers from Julius Caesar through Domitian. |
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In China, merchants around 2000 BCE would hide their wealth from rulers who would simply take it from them and banish them. |
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High Society in London, following the Queen, largely ostracized home rulers, and Liberal clubs were badly split. |
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From Peking to Berlin the rulers of the Communist world dutifully chorused delight at Khrushchev's coup. |
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And many readers could provide me with tales of rulers across knuckles, slaps on bare legs, heads cracked together, and mighty ear-cloutings. |
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Their rulers, politicians, revolutions set apart, and this horrible engouement for Bonaparte. |
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Both of these rulers were killed during the year that followed, as Cadwallon continued his devastating invasion of Northumbria. |
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The Norman rulers and the Gaelic Irish elites intermarried and the areas under Norman rule became Gaelicised. |
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Every precaution is taken to identify the interests of the people and of the rulers. |
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Neither Honorius nor Arcadius ever displayed any ability either as rulers or as generals, and both lived as the puppets of their courts. |
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Not for the first time in Rome's history, a triumvirate of mutually distrustful rulers proved unstable. |
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Elegies written in the persona of its dispossessed rulers record the sorrow at this loss. |
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However, later generations have ascribed a variety of devices to the rulers of Mercia or to the land itself. |
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Two subsequent Roman rulers of Britain, appointed by the remaining troops, were murdered. |
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The dates, names and achievements of the Essex kings, like those of most early rulers in the Heptarchy, remain conjectural. |
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These meetings were also attended by rulers from outside his territory, especially Welsh kings, who thus acknowledged his overlordship. |
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This was an advantage for William, as it was the only universal tax collected by western European rulers during this period. |
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Medieval rulers such as Henry enjoyed various sources of income during the 12th century. |
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These changes brought the customary rights of lay rulers such as John over ecclesiastical appointments into question. |
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The Aberffraw family had long claimed primacy over all other Welsh lords, including over those rulers of Powys and of Deheubarth. |
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The Tudors succeeded the House of Plantagenet as rulers of the Kingdom of England, and were succeeded by the House of Stuart. |
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He appointed himself and his successors as the supreme rulers of the English church. |
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Discussions, however, remained inconclusive, and both rulers died within two years of the embassy. |
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It continued to experience resistance from local rulers during its expansion. |
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Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan, the rulers of the Kingdom of Mysore, offered much resistance to the British forces. |
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Napoleon elevated the rulers of the two largest Confederation states, Saxony and Bavaria, to the status of kings. |
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Umayyad descendants took over the Iberian Peninsula, the Aghlabids controlled North Africa, and the Tulunids became rulers of Egypt. |
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He made and repaired brass reflecting quadrants, parallel rulers, scales, parts for telescopes, and barometers, among other things. |
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Lahore, as the occasional residence of Mughal rulers, contains many important buildings from the empire. |
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Later when conquering England, the Norman rulers in England would eventually assimilate, thereby adopting the speech of the local English. |
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Other even smaller groups had their own rulers, but their size means that they do not often appear in the histories. |
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Unlike the individual arches erected for Roman conquerors, Renaissance rulers often built a row of arches through which processions were staged. |
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The lives of great artists such as Raphael were commemorated on equal terms with those of rulers, and fictional characters were also depicted. |
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That belongs solely to earthly rulers, who may also accuse the pope of crimes, if need be. |
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Shulgi of Ur was among the first Mesopotamian rulers to declare himself to be divine. |
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For a century and a half following the Norman conquest of England in 1066, Normandy and England were linked by Norman and Frankish rulers. |
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King David I is still widely regarded as one of the most significant rulers in Scotland's history. |
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They met with considerable success as many of the native Welsh rulers, resentful of Llywelyn's overlordship, surrendered and joined the English. |
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In ancient Mesopotamia, many rulers of Assyria, Babylonia and Sumer were absolute monarchs as well. |
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Indian rulers adopted red serge jackets for their own forces and retainers as if to capture their magical qualities. |
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The second goal was motivated by the concerns among some Company officials about being seen as foreign rulers. |
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They argued that the Company should try to win over its subjects by outdoing the region's previous rulers in the support of indigenous learning. |
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For each captive, the African rulers would receive a variety of goods from Europe. |
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These states remained under the full control of their hereditary rulers, with no popular government. |
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The Kaiser, kings and other hereditary rulers all were removed from power and Wilhelm fled to exile in the Netherlands. |
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The education of Polish society was a goal of the nation's rulers as early as the 12th century. |
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The rulers were counseled by the Taoist clergy that a strong ruler was virtually invisible. |
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The Hebrides were now part of the Kingdom of the Isles, whose rulers were themselves vassals of the Kings of Norway. |
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The historical Roman duumvirs were not rulers but magistrates, performing various judicial, religious, or public functions. |
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Political economy theory regards constitutions as coordination devices that help citizens to prevent rulers from abusing power. |
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In this position, they can directly sanction the government by refusing to cooperate, disabling the authority of the rulers. |
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British, French, Portuguese colonial interests struck treaties with these rulers, and established their trading ports. |
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Russia, for example, remained largely rural and agricultural, and its autocratic rulers kept the peasants in serfdom. |
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Terms like strongman or dictator are often used to refer to de facto rulers of this sort. |
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The Hebrides were now part of Kingdom of the Isles, whose rulers were themselves vassals of the Kings of Norway. |
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One of the first rulers to be proclaimed a god during his actual reign was Gudea of Lagash, followed by some later kings of Ur, such as Shulgi. |
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In the early days, the rulers of both khanates increasingly adopted Tibetan Buddhism, similar to the Yuan dynasty at that time. |
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It is a political system controlled by unelected rulers who usually permit some degree of individual freedom. |
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A major player in the commerce between the Roman Empire and Ancient India, Aksum's rulers facilitated trade by minting their own currency. |
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Since the 10 century, rulers of Kilwa would go on to build elaborate coral mosques and introduce copper coinage. |
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The new rulers defended Dutch trading interests, which then developed rapidly. |
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He made passing allusions on ungodly rulers which caused Darnley to walk out. |
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The records for the rulers of the Hebrides are obscured again until the arrival of Godred Crovan as King of Dublin and the Isles. |
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Finally, Calvin taught that if worldly rulers rise up against God they should be put down. |
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Though the title of Earl was nominally equal to the continental duke, unlike them, earls were not de facto rulers in their own right. |
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The Earliest Poets wrote praise poems for rulers and lords of Welsh dynasties from Strathclyde to Cornwall. |
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The next period is the Poets of the Princes, when Welsh rulers fought each other and the English in shifting alliances. |
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With his main rival dead Dafydd formed an alliance with other Welsh rulers and began a campaign against the English occupation of parts of Wales. |
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By 1258 he was acknowledged by almost all the native rulers as Prince of Wales. |
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Wihtred of Kent died in 725, and Ine of Wessex, one of the most formidable rulers of his day, abdicated in 726 to go on a pilgrimage to Rome. |
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The brothers are recorded as cooperating closely against the rulers of the remaining lesser kingdoms of Wales. |
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The origins of the various redactions are reflected in the relative position of the rulers of the Welsh kingdoms. |
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Llywelyn formed an alliance with Gwenwynwyn of Powys and the two main rulers of Deheubarth, Maelgwn ap Rhys and Rhys Gryg, and rose against John. |
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Llywelyn's original intention had been that they should do homage to Dafydd, but the king wrote to the other rulers forbidding them to do homage. |
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However, from about 1882, the rulers had only de jure rule over Egypt, as it had by then become a British puppet state. |
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The art was primarily religious in nature and depicted deities or rulers smoking early forms of cigarettes. |
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The Federation of South Arabia was created by the British to counter Arab nationalism by giving more freedom to the rulers of the nations. |
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Myths are often endorsed by rulers and priests and are closely linked to religion or spirituality. |
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Twice more in the 860s Vikings rowed to Paris, leaving only when they acquired sufficient loot or bribes from the Carolingian rulers. |
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This trade was crucial to the economy of Yemen and the frankincense and myrrh trees were seen as a source of wealth by the its rulers. |
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After the death of Lothair, the Low Countries were coveted by the rulers of both West Francia and East Francia. |
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This process culminated in the rule of the House of Valois, who were the rulers of the Duchy of Burgundy. |
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But Mussolini and his Fascists were now puppet rulers under their German patrons. |
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The Lydian and later the Macedonian kings, as rulers of the same rank, also became Heracleidae. |
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He executed the ruler of Algiers and everybody he suspected would oppose him, including local rulers. |
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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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Cabral forged an alliance with Kochi's ruler, as well with rulers of other Indian cities, and was able to establish a factory. |
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And yf this come to the rulers eares, we wyll pease him, and make you safe. |
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Callixtus declined to support Louis, however, and merely advised the two rulers to seek peace. |
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To many secular rulers the Protestant reformation was a welcome opportunity to expand their wealth and influence. |
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The Barbary Coast increased in influence in the 15th century, when the Ottoman Empire took over as rulers of the area. |
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The gifts of Hellenistic rulers to temples sometimes included cassia and cinnamon. |
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According to Suetonius, a prophecy ubiquitous in the Eastern provinces claimed that from Judaea would come the future rulers of the world. |
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These rulers were allowed a measure of internal autonomy in exchange for British suzerainty. |
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The Beatles and the Rolling Stones were rulers of pop music, Carnaby Street ruled the fashion world. |
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Much art has been disliked purely because it depicted or otherwise stood for unpopular rulers, parties or other groups. |
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The independent status of these Lombard states is in general attested by the ability of their rulers to switch suzerains at will. |
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A widening cultural divide grew between the Franks remaining in the north and the rulers far to the south. |
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Another hypothesis is that the rulers of Charax had expansionist designs on Parthian Babylon, giving them a rationale for alliance with Trajan. |
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Unlike many lauded rulers in history, Trajan's reputation has survived undiminished for nearly nineteen centuries. |
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They wrote about the history of Jesus Christ, that of the Church and that of their patrons, the dynastic history of the local rulers. |
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Previous historians had focused on cyclical events of the rise and decline of rulers and nations. |
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In other parts of Europe, sovereign rulers arrogated to themselves the exclusive prerogative to act as fons honorum within their realms. |
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The genealogical connection between the 9th century Khagans of Rus' and the later Rurikid rulers, if any, is unknown at this time. |
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The initial electors were the rulers of the stem duchies, who generally chose one of their own. |
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It is possible that the reguli were the rulers of the two pagi in each kingdom. |
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The establishment of the church as an institution recognized by worldly rulers is also visible in legal history. |
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The local Italian rulers, sensing danger in their own country, drew closer to the European kings who opposed France. |
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In 1796, Napoleon Bonaparte led a French army into northern Italy and drove out the Austrian rulers. |
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Both rulers continued the steady expansion of Kievan Rus' that had begun under Oleg. |
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Lithuanian rulers also requested and received a metropolitan for Novagrudok shortly afterwards. |
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In some cases, the veche either made agreements with their rulers or expelled them and invited others to take their place. |
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However, it was still not uncommon for several rulers to share the kingship. |
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