It is a country ravaged by invasion from the Tartars, famine, paganism and brutal violence. |
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During the years of 1616-1619 an epidemic, perhaps either bubonic or pneumonic plague, ravaged the coast of New England from Cape Cod to Maine. |
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Hitherto unknown locally, the disease ravaged the remaining Khoikhoi, killing 90 percent of the population. |
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Rain brought renewed fears of mudslides in areas ravaged by wildfires last year. |
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There are also anti-Taliban fighters from the Hazara ethnic minority who control parts of the exquisite, ravaged Bamiyan valley. |
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A pregnant woman told today of the devastating moment she returned home to find her York flat ravaged by fire. |
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Residents who did evacuate, like Patrick Pollard, struggled to move around the ravaged areas. |
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For three years, their homeland, already ravaged by a decade-long civil war, has suffered a catastrophic drought. |
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Councillor Colin Tandy spoke about various river sites which have been completely ravaged by vandals. |
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Last year, on the back of two years of drought, Margaret's orchard was ravaged by severe frosts. |
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Mr Bush is expected to visit the ravaged Gulf Coast region, perhaps on Saturday. |
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For those whose bodies have been ravaged by the infection, the disease's effects are life long. |
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One part of me agrees, yes that in a completely hopeless case, ravaged by pain, this might be the merciful thing to do. |
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He lived in Glasgow, a city ravaged by the effects of that particular drug. |
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By his 40's, he had turned into a ravaged scarecrow, unrepentant about the trail of sorrow he had left behind. |
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In Cambodia, the lights of an operating theatre illuminate a body that has been ravaged by a landmine. |
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Great in the summer as protectors, they're even better into the fall and winter to revives hair that's been ravaged by surf and sun. |
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Keeping alive 55 year olds ravaged by a lifetime of poverty is much less cost effective than removing children from poverty. |
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Today at the supermarket I noticed a woman whose skin looked ravaged by the sun. |
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Images of John Paul II have shown him gaunt, pained and ravaged by Parkinson's disease and arthritis. |
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She had eight operations in less than a month to remove the ravaged tissue and prevent the disease from spreading further. |
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Only about 500 Ethiopian wolves remain in the wild, and the species has been ravaged by rabies epidemics at least twice in the recent past. |
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For more than 250 years, the yellow jack had ravaged the Americas, bringing death to millions and striking panic in entire populations. |
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For years afterward, the index languished below the century mark as the economy slowed and inflation ravaged consumers' buying power. |
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A ship had thrown its anchor down near desolate shores, constantly ravaged and pummeled by persistent waves. |
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Others are ravaged by hunger and thus spend their time at various marketplaces selling merchandise for marketeers to make ends meet. |
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The real villains he fingers as the Newfoundlanders, who waded into the auks' domains and ravaged them without mercy. |
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Age had ravaged his features, but his nose remained aquiline and his eyes sharp. |
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I perch in the middle of the bench seat in the back, my knees knocking into everyone as the road turns from deep ruts into ravaged riverbed. |
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In recent photos, however, he looked haggard and ravaged, his face a withered pumpkin atop a doughy gut. |
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Avian influenza has killed 18 people and ravaged poultry farms in 10 Asian nations and territories. |
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Eight years on, Elinor is still ravaged by the debilitating skin condition. |
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The 41-year-old took charge of the rescue operation at his beachside hotel in the resort of Phuket, which was ravaged by the wall of water. |
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He was at least 70, and carried an enormous beer belly inside skin ravaged by years of sun. |
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They seem to have been badly ravaged by micrometeorites and are somewhat high in radiation, so I doubt that a trip would be worth while. |
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As Hannibal's army ravaged the Italian countryside and besieged allied cities and towns, the Roman army followed it at a safe distance. |
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I jovially implied that the money would be far better spent in a place like war ravaged Sudan. |
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I have just returned from a visit a country ravaged by disease, poverty and hunger on a biblical scale. |
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More than 33,000 cases of cholera have been reported, while malaria, anaemia and bilharzia have ravaged the population over the last few months. |
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First Minister Jack McConnell yesterday urged people in drug ravaged areas to shop drug dealers. |
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It is a tribute to Wales that, despite being ravaged by injury, they still have the better players in most of the central command positions. |
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The sight reminded me of a war torn city ravaged and pillaged by the plunder of war. |
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Much of the worst devastation on the Six Rivers corresponds to areas previously ravaged by a ferocious 1995 wind storm. |
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The mining town is well known for its ravaged, hauntingly barren countryside that once inspired NASA to conduct its moon landing trials there. |
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The resulting feud ravaged the Australian side of the 1930s and 1940s until Bradman finally purged O'Reilly's cabal. |
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The disease ravaged his frail body, leaving him unable to speak or control bodily functions in his final days. |
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Tapestries, to me, had always been dim and dowdy things ravaged by time that no one but an academic drudge could like. |
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He is unstinting but never ungenerous in his depiction of an Italy materially and emotionally ravaged by the second world war. |
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But you don't complain, because if they turned the lights up the pert young thing next to you might faint at the sight of your ravaged features. |
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The fungus Sirococcus clavigignenti-juglandacearum has ravaged butternut, or white walnut, trees. |
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Some history books have canonized people who have ravaged the rich and shared the treasure with the poor. |
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Certainly, the construction industry will be pressing the minister to see whether Scotland's ravaged road system will receive any spending. |
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Even with the cooler weather and some rain, acrid smoke still hangs over the most ravaged areas. |
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Workers cut an immortelle tree which toppled across the road yesterday, after a freak storm ravaged the area. |
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Thus Demons found their way into the world, and great magic ravaged the lands. |
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The Danegeld was an English tribute raised to pay off Viking raiders to save the land from being ravaged by the raiders. |
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We are in a city ravaged by war where the menfolk rally round a new leader despite their misgivings. |
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Sewage, effluents from dyeing and electroplating units, indiscriminate sand mining and encroachments have all ravaged the river. |
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But it was the pigs, rats and monkeys introduced by man that ravaged the dodo eggs and chicks and led to the bird's extinction. |
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This tornado hit Furnace county, Nebraska, and it is one of 100 twisters that ravaged must of the Midwest over the weekend. |
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Two kings lost their thrones and the country was periodically ravaged by civil war. |
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His squad were ravaged by injury, although he didn't seek to use this as an excuse. |
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During these years, both sides ravaged the countryside in an attempt to starve the enemy. |
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But not even Ricky Williams could prosper behind this line, ravaged by injuries and inconsistent play. |
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Once regarded as the economic miracle of West Africa, his country is ravaged by civil war. |
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Nothing actually stopped this Viking invasion until 892, when pestilence so ravaged the army that they finally dispersed. |
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Bush was expected to arrive in Florida today to tour areas ravaged by hurricane Ivan. |
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Hurricane Ivan is also widely expected to hit the already ravaged State of Florida. |
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After the British evacuated, patriots returned to ruined properties and a city ravaged by fires. |
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She has just begun chemotherapy and her immune system is so ravaged that the most innocuous virus could kill her. |
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The trees will be planted in small natural openings and areas ravaged by fires or logging. |
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Darkness unleashed, it ravaged the land, destroying everything in its path. |
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Britain tried to implement various formulas to bring independence to a land ravaged by violence. |
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What they did was to start Women for Women International, a nonprofit group focused on empowering women whose countries were ravaged by war. |
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The small craft shivers within a pyrotechnic display of ravaged primary particles. |
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From the 450s onward, Pericles rebuilt the city of Athens, a city ravaged by years of wars with the Persians. |
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A circular shape always either emerges from or sinks into a ravaged surface. |
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Their country too was ravaged by war, by 35 years of Japanese imperialist occupation. |
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Her hands, arms, and feet were damaged from an immune deficiency that ravaged her skin. |
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The species have decimated pine tree populations in India and are similar to the bark beetle that has ravaged forests in the western United States. |
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In 1925, Nome, Alaska, was ravaged by a diphtheria epidemic. |
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Her skin does not appear to be ravaged by any sort of dermatological disease. |
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That lasts about five years, in which time the place has been altered, developed, and ravaged just enough to make you mad. |
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Bust times inevitably recall repressed myths of gallant cavalry laid low by Northern treachery and an economy ravaged by carpetbaggers and scalawags. |
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The clear reference to lynchers who ravaged black America in Cotter's day belies the poet's reputation for silence about such painful American issues. |
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Henri inherited a bitterly divided nation, ravaged by international and civil war, beset on all sides by the mighty Habsburg empire, and bankrupt. |
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The pair's sunken stomachs signal bodies ravaged by disease. |
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A madman has just ravaged an elementary school in Connecticut, leaving 20 children and six faculty dead in his wake. |
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The founding fathers of the European movement had lofty aims in seeking to avoid ever again the terrible wars that have ravaged our continent in the past. |
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Rabies so ravaged the population that there were very few raccoons left. |
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Police interviewed the mother and photographed the boy's ravaged body. |
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The pair have been helping people on an island off North Sumatra, the closest inhabited area to the epicentre of the earthquake, which was ravaged by the deadly waves. |
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The face that stared back at her was ravaged, bewildered, numb. |
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So far, Caitria is proudest of the time she visited the small town of Forney, Texas, ravaged by an EF3 tornado last April. |
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Twenty-nine years ago, its tanks and troops stormed into the country, fighting in the mountains and descending on the capital to restore order to a city ravaged by civil war. |
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This project combines fire rehabilitation with watershed and ecosystem restoration on sites where loblolly pine has been ravaged by bugs and blight. |
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Neighbouring houses weren't in danger, according to the Fire Service, but it did take a long time to quench the flames, which had ravaged through the whole house. |
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A population ravaged by disease retards economic development substantially, making it very difficult for the government to preserve domestic tranquillity. |
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But if we wait until they have thoroughly ravaged the rest of the world, there will be no one left to show solidarity with us when the chickens come home to roost. |
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The countryside of Pisa had been ravaged by aerial bombardments and artillery barrages, leaving only a wilderness of roofless houses and smoking craters. |
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The hardships of life inside mobile homes, which are being slowly ravaged by the salty sea air, seem to energise rather than depress the residents. |
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Bishop Rock, off the Scilly Isles, is Britain's most south-westerly Atlantic outpost, with a long history of wrecked shipping and ravaged lighthouses. |
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Night had fallen sullenly over the storm ravaged waters of the Gulf of Mexico, with heavy drops of rain spitting down from the wet, grey, overcast sky. |
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Every few minutes I think of Cuba about to be ravaged by Hurrican Ivan. |
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But in an economy ravaged by two decades of war, jobs are scarce. |
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Ten years ago, a population of gorillas in Central Africa was ravaged by the deadly virus. |
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In Across the ravaged Land, Nick Brandt captures the stone remains of wildlife that Africa is losing. |
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They were suffering from a flu-like infection, phocine distemper virus, which has ravaged seal colonies. |
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With nearly the entire nation freshly ravaged by the Vikings, England was in a desperate state. |
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Orestes was soon forced to flee Pavia when Odoacer's army broke through the city walls, and his army ravaged the city. |
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In May it reached York, and during the summer months of June, July and August, it ravaged the north. |
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In response, Mortimer ravaged the lands of Lancaster and checked the revolt. |
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I was terribly scared by Idi Amin's animosity that iron handedly ravaged the earth as if he was from a different planet. |
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He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. |
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Exploiting poor American naval command decisions, the German navy ravaged Allied shipping off the American Atlantic coast. |
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The Luftwaffe ravaged British cities during The Blitz, but failed to break British morale. |
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This made it far more difficult to evade contact, and the wolf packs ravaged many convoys. |
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The Basques were ravaged by the War of the Bands, bitter partisan wars between local ruling families. |
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The British were ravaged by disease, and were running low on food due to poor logistics. |
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Elidyr was killed in the attempt but his death was then avenged by his relatives who ravaged the coast of Arfon. |
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Henry's forces ravaged eastern Gwynedd and destroyed many churches thus enraging the local population. |
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In 1348, the Black Death, a lethal plague which had ravaged Europe, took hold in Dublin and killed thousands over the following decade. |
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They had no immunity to European diseases, so outbreaks of measles and smallpox ravaged their population. |
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Ballomar then led the larger part of his host southwards towards Italy, while the remainder ravaged Noricum. |
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Moving swiftly along Roman roads, Alaric sacked the cities of Aquileia and Cremona and ravaged the lands along the Adriatic Sea. |
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Seeking further gains, Theoderic frequently ravaged the provinces of the Eastern Roman Empire, eventually threatening Constantinople itself. |
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A Lombard army under Pippin then marched into the Drava valley and ravaged Pannonia. |
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Nicephorus ravaged the coasts with a fleet, initiating the only instance of war between the Byzantines and the Franks. |
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The Vikings also took advantage of the civil wars which ravaged the Duchy of Aquitaine in the early years of Charles' reign. |
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Ibn Khaldun noted that the lands ravaged by Banu Hilal invaders had become completely arid desert. |
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In the Late Middle Ages, the Basque Country was ravaged by the War of the Bands, bitter partisan wars between local ruling families. |
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In 1822 and 1824 the Turks and Egyptians ravaged the islands, including Chios and Psara, committing wholesale massacres of the population. |
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After that Galdan subjugated the Black Khirgizs and ravaged the Fergana Valley. |
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Moving across, the Mongolian army encountered no resistance and ravaged the area en route. |
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Outlaws ravaged the country without interference from the weakening Yuan armies. |
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The disease had ravaged Mexico, Central America, and the Inca civilization. |
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Malaria devastated the Jamestown colony and regularly ravaged the South and Midwest of the United States. |
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Meanwhile, Castile was ravaged by a plague that had arrived by ship from the north, losing half a million people. |
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Poor Ava goes to school sporting hair that looks like it has been ravaged by a drunk, apprentice crop circler. |
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The raids of the Huns and Ostrogoths in the 5th century ravaged the town and the earthquake a century later added to its demise. |
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The Filipino expats living in Oman responded to the recent calamities that ravaged the Visayan Islands leaving thousands homeless and helpless. |
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Parramatta Eels' season has been ravaged by injury, and the Cowboys will be confident of overpowering the visitors up the middle. |
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The gigantic world, split into massive and distinct explorable areas is besieged by dragons, torn apart by political turmoil and ravaged by war. |
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Watson shows that the Fomorians were in old Irish accounts represented as pirates who ravaged the coasts of Ireland, laying the people under tribute. |
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Until Liese Healing saw her post-op X-ray, she had no idea the bike chain type device had been used to reconfigure her jaw after it was ravaged by cancer. |
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But his idyllic life was turned upside down when Vanuatu was ravaged by the 155mph winds of Cyclone Pam, which killed 14 and left thousands homeless. |
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Under the directives of HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, two planes left Doha yesterday to Yemen's Socotra island which was ravaged by two cyclones recently. |
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In a state frequently ravaged by drought, the acequia system operates a under repartimiento system in proportion to what the various groups of people in the system need. |
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Smallpox also ravaged Mexico in the 1520s, killing 150,000 in Tenochtitlan alone, including the emperor, and Peru in the 1530s, aiding the European conquerors. |
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An unsuccessful attack on Pityus was followed in the second year by another, which sacked by Pityus and Trabzon and ravaged large areas in the Pontus. |
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These tribes who had crossed the Rhine in early 407 and ravaged Gaul. |
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Cedars, already ravaged by centuries of shipbuilding, were driven nearly to extinction in the twentieth century by the introduction of a parasite. |
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In addition, these clearances were unleashed on a population already ravaged by hunger and destitution and few attempts were made to provide shelter to the dispossessed. |
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In 1678 Nijmegen was host to the negotiations between the European powers that aimed to put an end to the constant warfare that had ravaged the continent for years. |
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The Black Death, a plague that ravaged Europe from 1347 to 1351 did not significantly affect Poland, and the country was spared from a major outbreak of the disease. |
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The ravaged Jacobite troops were routed by the government army. |
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The plague, inevitable companion of Mars, ravaged the populace. |
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The world's 7th most populous nation at the time was ravaged by wartime devastation and widespread poverty, receiving massive international aid as a result. |
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From there, he ravaged the interior and waited for Harold's return from the north, refusing to venture far from the sea, his line of communication with Normandy. |
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The most serious attacks took place in 1009, when a Viking army took up position over the winter period on the Isle of Wight and ravaged Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire. |
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