Zanzibar received its independence from the United Kingdom on December 19, 1963, as a constitutional monarchy under the sultan. |
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Oman is a sultanate with a sultan as the head of state and head of government. |
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The grand vizier was sent for by the sultan, dismissed, and bowstrung the next day. |
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Once, in a self-created emergency, he cast himself as a sultan in an Oriental drama. |
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The sultan escorted the prince, wearing a gold crown, to a golden chair on the dais. |
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In Malay, he flirted with danger, enraging the local sultan by falling in love with his ward. |
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He was a surgeon lieutenant in the navy and a major in the special forces for the sultan of Oman. |
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In 1533 the Dermoyen tapestry firm dispatched a team of weavers and merchants to Istanbul to design tapestries for the sultan. |
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Emrys claims to be a sultan of consulting for friends all over the globe in need of advice. |
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He was compelled to start negotiations, make peace, and suffer the humiliation of becoming vassal to the Turkish sultan. |
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Before he entered that war, first he sent his messengers to the sultan of Egypt, requiring him not to intermeddle in that war. |
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He had spent many years as a personal slave to the insanely bloodthirsty and tyrannical sultan. |
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They objected to the religious laxity of the sultan and ran afoul with him. |
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In fact, when the Russians left the country in 1834, the czar and the sultan chose the hospodars themselves. |
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Subsequently, Ali, the new sultan, handed the former sultana to his mother. |
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In 1769 a Mamluk leader, Ali Bey, proclaimed himself sultan, declaring independence from the Ottomans. |
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Elizabeth's dog, which had been bred in Turkey, was a gift from the sultan of that country. |
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The sultan escorted the Oxford-educated prince wearing a gold crown and a kris dagger tucked into his sash to a golden chair on the dais. |
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He was also a eunuch of such beauty that the sultan fell for his epicene handsomeness and appointed him his senior commander. |
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The placated sultan renamed him Mehmed Efendi, appointed him his personal doorkeeper, and provided him with a generous allowance. |
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Baklava: the sultan of sweets, or a sugar bomb not worth the risk of diabetes? |
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A sultan had these scholars around him, and consulted them, but he never felt bound to follow the results of the consultations. |
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I'm a merchant, and I work directly with the sultan of this sublime city, Ali Bin Al-Hassan! |
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Ricky Gervais, the sultan of scorn, uttered that cheeky bit while emceeing the Golden Globes ceremony a few years back. |
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The palace was seized and shortly afterward the Achinese sultan died. |
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The sultan gave him one of his female relatives in marriage, and the recreant knight appeared before Jerusalem at the head of an army of the infidels. |
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His father was reinstalled as the rightful sultan after the war. |
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According to that legend, the sultan who built the gorgeously white Taj Mahal as a tomb for his wife constructed a black replica for himself across the river Agra. |
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The highly independent Fur group, who have been ruled by the sultan of Darfur since 1916, have revolted with the Zaghawa, Masalit and other tribes in reaction to this. |
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In 1272 sultan Baibars allowed the Franciscans to settle in the Cenacle on Mount Zion. |
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The British managed to occupy Aden and agreed to compensate the sultan with an annual payment of 6000 riyals. |
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The Sultanate of Lahej was the only one in which the sultan was referred to as His Highness. |
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Crete was left out of the modern Greek state by the London Protocol of 1830, and soon it was yielded to Egypt by the Ottoman sultan. |
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The following year, the Seljuq sultan died, and the sultanate was split by internal rivalries. |
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Ṭoghrıl I had proclaimed himself sultan at Neyshābūr in 1038 and had espoused strict Sunnism, by which he gained the caliph's confidence and undermined the Būyid position in Baghdad. |
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On the strength of his years of study in Mecca, Ibn Battuta was appointed a qadi, or judge, by the sultan. |
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Then, putting the aggro behind him, the Welsh sultan takes a girl for a gondola ride and a game of tonsil tennis through Venice. |
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The sultan is mandated by God and thus is expected to lead his country and people in religious matters, ceremonies as well as prayers. |
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From 1265 to 1271, the Mamluk sultan Baibars drove the Franks to a few small coastal outposts. |
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It ended when Mehmed I emerged as the sultan and restored Ottoman power, bringing an end to the Interregnum, also known as the Fetret Devri. |
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Though the sultan was the supreme monarch, the sultan's political and executive authority was delegated. |
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The Grand Vizier had considerable independence from the sultan with almost unlimited powers of appointment, dismissal and supervision. |
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The tour included an official visit to Istanbul where Fisher dined with the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from gold cups and plates. |
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Abbas II was deposed as khedive and replaced by his uncle, Hussein Kamel, as sultan. |
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In the same year, the Ottoman sultan moved to attack Lepanto by land, and sent a large fleet to support his offensive by sea. |
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Following Zheng He's arrival, the sultan and sultana of Malacca visited China at the head of over 540 of their subjects, bearing ample tribute. |
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From there, he made his way to Delhi and became acquainted with the sultan, Muhammad bin Tughluq. |
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The king responded with a ship full of spices and, later, an Indian Rhinoceros sent to him from the sultan Muzaffar Shah II of Gujarat. |
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Miguel Ferreira was sent via Ormuz to Tabriz, where he had several interviews with the shah about common goals on defeating the Mamluk sultan. |
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In 1812, the sultan in southern Borneo ceded his forts to the English East India Company. |
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While in office, he plundered a Spanish fort on Tidore, poisoned the sultan of Ternate and committed atrocities against the local population. |
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In 1510, the Portuguese defeated the ruling Bijapur sultan Yousuf Adil Shah with the help of a local ally, Timayya. |
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The next painter the sultan approached was a sly old dog with more suss than a Cockney two-card trickster. |
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Once the capital of the Wodeyar dynasty and the throne of Tipu sultan, Mysore, the City of Palaces, even today retains its quaint charm that never fails to mesmerize tourists. |
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The sultan thereupon appointed him grand vizier in place of Mahmud Nedim. |
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Befriending a sultan king of the Moluccas, Drake and his men became involved in some intrigues with the Portuguese there. |
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Al-Manṣūr resisted the demands of his nominal suzerain, the Ottoman sultan, by playing off the European powers, namely, France, Portugal, Spain, and England, against one another in order to preserve Moroccan independence. |
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By initiating these changes on his own authority before seeking permission from his nominal suzerain, the Ottoman sultan, Cuza asserted the de facto independence of Romania, as the united principalities were now known. |
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Even before the great sultan Mehmed II, known as El Fatih, took power in Turkey, the Serbian despotate had become the booty of the invaders. |
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At the time, the sultan was the wealthiest man in the world. |
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And yet it is the privilege of the prince and the sultan to misbehave. |
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Children will cheer for the rooster who outwits the greedy sultan. |
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The terminology and formulation of the report are reminiscent of the letter of the puffed-up sultan to the Zaporozhsky Cossacks, who then gave him an appropriate response. |
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The first visit by a foreign leader to Iran since Hassan Rouhani assumed the presidency came earlier this week with the arrival of Oman's sultan, Qaboos bin Said Al Said. |
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Not because he thought it might be rubbish, but because it was being held at the Beverly Hills hotel – one of many owned by the sultan of Brunei, who recently enacted some anti-gay and anti-adultery laws in his native land. |
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The sultan of Oman has issued a pardon for about 50 bloggers and human rights activists who were recently sentenced to long jail terms on charges of defamation, cyber-crime or illegal assembly. |
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He was the first of Gama's captains to reach Mozambique, and establish contact with the sultan of Quiloa. |
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Charles fought continually with the Ottoman Empire and its sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent. |
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Moreover, Muhammad Ali had to admit a formal dependence to the Ottoman sultan. |
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The interior was ruled by Ibadite imams and the coastal areas by the sultan. |
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Merchants arriving from India in the port city of Aden paid tribute in form of musk, camphor, ambergris and sandalwood to Ibn Ziyad, the sultan of Yemen. |
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The contemporary Ottoman sultan Suleiman the Magnificent catalogued the surviving editions of the Commentaries, and translated them to Turkish language. |
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As the sultanate was a tributary of the Ming dynasty, the emperor demanded that the Portuguese withdraw from Malacca and restore the Malay sultan to the throne. |
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The Ayyubid sultan of Egypt, Saladin, fortified both Kolzum and Suez in to defend Egypt's eastern frontier from Crusader raids by Raynald of Chatillon. |
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New sultans were always chosen from the sons of the previous sultan. |
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The parliament survived for only two years before the sultan suspended it. |
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The Ottoman Empire was first subdivided into provinces, in the sense of fixed territorial units with governors appointed by the sultan, in the late 14th century. |
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Sufi shaykhs, by personal contact with the sultan or through their protective presence within his dominions, were seen as providing a sanction for rulership. |
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Commanders were distinguished by the number of horsetails carried before them. The sultan had seven, the grand vizier five, and the pashas three, two, or one. |
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