In July 1979, the Nicaraguan Revolution overthrew the dictator Somoza and replaced the dynasty with the Sandinistas. |
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In 1740 war came again as the result of another succession crisis when the male line of the Habsburg dynasty came to an end. |
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Part of the club for 35 years, Garry Hughes and the Hughes family are a dynasty in rugby league circles. |
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This winding tale of cultural diffusion takes us back more than seventeen-hundred years to the Pallava dynasty. |
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It was during the reign of Nebuchadnezzar in the Chaldean dynasty in Babylon that the circle was divided into 360 degrees. |
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More than a thousand years later the Ptolemaic dynasty commissioned a history of Egypt that mentioned a powerful female king. |
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In a little local sidelight, it was the Yuan dynasty that first started to breed horses in the Penghu archipelago for use in southern China. |
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Each dynasty or era naturally impressed its own character on the imperial government itself. |
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The wall was built by the Qin dynasty to deter foreign aggression from the north. |
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The new English Tudor dynasty was determined to end this state of affairs and impose modern centralized government across Ireland. |
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Why did the privileged first son of a wealthy dynasty become a drunkard and hell-raiser in the first place? |
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He also established the Flavian dynasty as the legitimate successor to the throne. |
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Founder of the Merovingian dynasty was Merovaeus, said to be descended from the union of a sea creature and a French queen. |
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Cyrus's Achaemenian dynasty also allowed local kings and nobles to govern their original realms, albeit under Persian suzerainty. |
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The Damascus-based Umayyads were overthrown by a revolution that brought the new dynasty of the Abbasids to power. |
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Since the decline of the Gupta dynasty to the age of the Mughals, there was no central political authority through most of India. |
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They are all warning him that if he goes through with his plan he will be riding for a fall and risking the eclipse of the dynasty in Syria. |
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He has led a dynasty in a free agent, salary-capped era in which such dominance was presumed to be impossible. |
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Kublai Khan united the whole of China in 1279 and the Yuan dynasty came to power. |
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In the latter period of the Western Zhou dynasty bronze scripts became more regular, with sharper angles and thinner lines. |
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During the Ming dynasty dragon robes were used as gifts to dignitaries and bribes to ward off northern barbarians like the Manchus. |
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The fourth is the renowned exilic culture place of a number of past dynasty dignitaries of great literary talent. |
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In 1575 B.C., a Thebian dynasty drove out the Hyksos and reunited the kingdom. |
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No one could be in any doubt about the venerability of the dynasty and their firm establishment on a throne rich in history. |
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The hypothesis that Babylon was ruled by an Aryan dynasty was strictly contradicted by Berosus and the records disentombed from the ruins. |
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Journalists love the dynasty story for the meat, colour and the opportunity to pen clever lines that it provides. |
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May he found a dynasty of true Britons, numberless as the sand on the seashore. |
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Thus, the finest metalwork of the East Angles resembles that of Kent, and their royal dynasty seems to have been Swedish. |
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The Edmonton Oilers dynasty of the 1980s was the direct antithesis of the Flyers. |
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Every hockey dynasty had the common element of an outstanding defensive rearguard to anchor play in the defensive zone. |
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In 1952, Gaj Singh was crowned as the 38th ruler of the Rathore dynasty founded in the 13th Century. |
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And finally, there is the jewel in the crown of this dynasty of abnormality, David's sister, Amy. |
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Two of these parchments were genealogies of King Dagobert II, the last of the Frankish dynasty of Priest-Kings known as the Merovingians. |
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In 1328, the Capetian dynasty in France came to an end with the death of Charles IV, the son of Philip the Fair. |
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In China during the Sung dynasty there was a movement in favour of natural food. |
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Hand of Death is set in 17th century China, the Ching dynasty era when Manchu occupiers persecuted the members of the Shaolin sect. |
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When the Hohenstaufen dynasty fell in 1254, the capital of Italian poetry moved north. |
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In China the Qing dynasty had built up the most extensive Chinese empire in history. |
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The royal dynasty he founded proved remarkably durable, surviving recurrent periods of minority rule in the 15th and 16th cents. |
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The Norman dynasty is famous for its martial accomplishment, its aggression and, of course, its conquests. |
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The treasures of a dynasty that survived civil war, deposition and the Great Fire of London are to be displayed to the public. |
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The art of the Flavian dynasty is characterized by divergent official styles and imagery. |
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Early in the twelfth century the Almohads, another clan, overthrew the Almoravid dynasty and assumed rule. |
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They included an Egyptian scarab whose hieroglyphics told how Amen Hotep III of the 18th dynasty shot 102 fierce lions with his own bow. |
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This capital of the 17th century Safavid dynasty can keep a visitor in awe for days. |
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Two books written in Middle Persian from the Sassanide dynasty are left in which Parthian words are seen. |
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That rule certainly applies when one's elder sibling is heir to the longest family dynasty in the world. |
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His name indicates that his family was granted the citizenship by the Flavian dynasty of Vespasian. |
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After a brief flirtation with the national interest, the aristocracy is back to putting dynasty before duty. |
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It was the homage of the new dynasty to the name and influence of the greatest general of his time. |
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The man who helped to create a president and a political dynasty died in April last year after a lifetime of achievement. |
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Doreen has been Haworth's lollipop lady for 11 years and she is steadily building up a family dynasty in the job. |
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Brussels and Washington may no longer be able to contain Lukashenko as he builds a Stalinist dynasty in the heart of Europe. |
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In fact, the new Flavian dynasty which took control of Rome in AD 69 erected this vast pleasure palace for the people precisely in order to obliterate Nero's memory. |
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With the foundation of the Capetian dynasty at the end of the 10th century it begins to be possible to speak of a French kingdom, though not necessarily of a French art. |
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The following is a brief summation of acupuncture's innovations and developments and their socio-political context from the end of the Han dynasty through modern times. |
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He visits an exhibition of Romanic art under the Capetian dynasty in the Louvre museum in Paris, finding it spellbinding, if a touch too soberly presented. |
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The example of Caliph Abdul Aziz from Umayyad dynasty is well known. |
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With each generation, the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty has grown less impressive, and more pedestrian. |
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The show seeks to suggest, as dynasty and Dallas did, that rich people suffer too. |
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A problem far more pressing for the dynasty was the Taiping revolt, which ran from 1850 to 1864 and left tens of millions dead. |
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The demise of the Chakri dynasty is unthinkable for most Thai, but they dread their crown prince. |
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When we arrived, we passed a full-scale replica of the Forbidden City, a Qin dynasty palace and various other amazing sets. |
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The last king of this dynasty was a ruler named Sher Daulat. |
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He finally declared Egypt as an autonomous state under the Ottoman sovereignty, and started a dynasty of Khedives and Kings that lasted for over a century. |
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So maintaining a buffer zone ruled by the Kim dynasty satisfies all of Beijing's concerns. |
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In The House of Rothschild, I identified at least three members of that illustrious financial dynasty as gay. |
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However, a three-peat and four world championships in five years has easily qualified them for dynasty status, especially in this era of the three-tiered postseason. |
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Huxley founded a remarkable dynasty of English scientists and thinkers. |
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The rabbis honored the victory won by the Maccabees, but despised the Hasmonean dynasty that came to power as a result. |
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The dynasty founded by him was destroyed in about 2200, and after 2150 the kings of Ur not only re-established Sumerian sovereignty in Sumer but also conquered Akkad. |
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He sold himself as the latest in a dynasty of pigeon catchers. |
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The new Capetian dynasty in France which replaced the Carolingian family in 987 ruled over a disparate set of semi-autonomous territorial principalities. |
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Thus the Capetian dynasty had its rise in the person of Hugh Capet. |
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The Richard III Society remains firmly convinced that Richard III was foully traduced by revisionists like William Shakespeare and other Tudor dynasty hagiographers. |
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By 640, the Merovingian dynasty established by Clovis, rapidly declined. |
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The 150-year family dynasty that controlled Anheuser-Busch lived in a soap opera as sudsy as the product they sold. |
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There, in 1081, he organised an advance against the Tanguts winning major victories and extending the control of the Sung dynasty over new regions. |
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The Omayyad dynasty of caliphs ruled from Damascus until 750, when Shiite Muslims, who descended from the caliph Ali, massacred the Omayyad family. |
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He founded a dynasty that lasted until the Caesars conquered them. |
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Mansa Musa told him that he was from a dynasty where the authority is transmitted by inheritance, and recounted the adventures of the king who ruled before him. |
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The Barrymores were a multigenerational dynasty that included film and theater actors John, Lionel, Ethel, John Drew, and Drew. |
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The trouble was that, with stability restored, and the Tudor dynasty apparently secure, England had started to become vulnerable to a mounting release of forces. |
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The Qing dynasty that came after the Ming dynasty often continued the Ming dynasty's isolationist policies. |
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After Zheng He's voyages in the 15th century, the foreign policy of the Ming dynasty in China became increasingly isolationist. |
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The Jin dynasty fell after their defeat against the rising Mongol Empire, a steppe confederation that had formerly been a Jurchen vassal. |
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Throughout the Ming dynasty, around fifty texts were published on the treatment of smallpox. |
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The ascension of the Tudor dynasty to the English throne in 1485 heralded a change in the way Wales was administered. |
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During the Ming dynasty and Qing dynasty, there were many printed and handcopied editions. |
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By 1279, they conquered the Song dynasty and brought all of China under control of the Yuan dynasty. |
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The dynasty had a vast imperial household, staffed with thousands of eunuchs, who were headed by the Directorate of Palace Attendants. |
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During the first dynasty of Babylon, Hammurabi and his governors served as the highest appellate courts of the land. |
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Eunuchs gained unprecedented power over state affairs during the Ming dynasty. |
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Although naval warfare has a long history, the earliest known usage of the naval mine dates to the Ming dynasty. |
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The Court and the government were also very mobile, and each dynasty favoured its own castles and estates. |
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In 1356, Zhu's rebel force captured the city of Nanjing, which he would later establish as the capital of the Ming dynasty. |
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In the later years of the dynasty, Feng Menglong and Ling Mengchu innovated with vernacular short fiction. |
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The Dongxiangs, Bonans, Yugur and Monguor people were invaded by Chinese Ming dynasty. |
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Alexander left the government of Caria to a member of the Hecatomnid dynasty, Ada, who adopted Alexander. |
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This dynasty included some of the most able emperors in Byzantium's history, and the period is one of revival and resurgence. |
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He was the son of Ursus and represented the attempt of his father to establish a dynasty. |
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The Qin dynasty, which ruled China from 221 to 206 BC, abolished slavery and discouraged serfdom. |
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Chief among these was the Yejju dynasty, which included Aligaz of Yejju and his brother Ali I of Yejju. |
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Isabella's only son, John, married Margaret of Austria, maintaining ties with the Habsburg dynasty, on which Spain relied heavily. |
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The North African traveler Ibn Battuta, who also visited China during the Yuan dynasty ca. |
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The polity was governed by the Makhzumi dynasty, which reigned over the province until it was deposed around 1280 by the Walashma dynasty. |
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However Gwynedd where Cunedda established a militaristic dynasty remained undefeated until the 13th century. |
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Tudor assumed the throne as Henry VII, founding the Tudor dynasty and bringing the Plantagenet line of kings to an end. |
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The Empire of Nicaea, founded by the Laskarid dynasty, managed to reclaim Constantinople from the Latins in 1261 and defeat Epirus. |
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Before he could marry again David died, apparently unexpectedly, bringing the Bruce dynasty to an end. |
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Historians consider Bosworth Field to mark the end of the Plantagenet dynasty, making it a defining moment of English and Welsh history. |
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Despite this alliance between the Plantagenets and the Capetians, the dynasty on the French throne, the two houses were sometimes in conflict. |
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Their leader Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, by his victory became the first English monarch of the Tudor dynasty. |
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She had not produced a male heir who survived longer than two months, and Henry wanted a son to secure the Tudor dynasty. |
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He was the last king of the House of York and the last of the Plantagenet dynasty. |
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In 1373, Robert ensured the future security of the Stewart dynasty by having Parliament pass entailments regarding the succession. |
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The Tudor dynasty ended with the childless Elizabeth I, and the line of succession to the English throne was passed through Margaret's heirs. |
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With the Yuan dynasty crumbling, competing rebel groups began fighting for control of the country and thus the right to establish a new dynasty. |
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The seals of the Han dynasty were impressed in a soft clay, but from the Tang dynasty a red ink made from cinnabar was normally used. |
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Together with the Virginia dynasty of presidents, this gave the Commonwealth national importance. |
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The practice spread, and it seems to be taken for granted by King Clovis I at the very beginning of the Merovingian dynasty. |
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Edward took particular delight in appropriating the royal home of the Gwynedd dynasty. |
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Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana or Good Queen Bess, the childless Elizabeth was the last monarch of the Tudor dynasty. |
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A newer edition, based on Ming dynasty handcopied editions, was recently published by Ocean Publishing House in China. |
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On his death, Gwynedd reverted to the Aberffraw dynasty, though Powys and Deheubarth were divided between his sons. |
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The Aberffraw dynasty suffered various depositions by rivals in Deheubarth, Powys, and England in the 10th and 11th centuries. |
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The Pictish institution of kingship provided the basis for merger with the Gaelic Alpin dynasty. |
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With his final overthrow in 711, supported once more by the urban aristocracy, the Heraclian dynasty came to an end. |
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Zhu Di was the fourth son of the Hongwu Emperor, the founder of the Ming dynasty. |
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Concurrently with it the Ruthenian Federation of Kievan Rus' started to disintegrate into smaller principalities as the Rurik dynasty grew. |
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In October of the same year, the Second Opium War saw Britain overpower the Qing dynasty in China. |
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Cnut's actions as a conqueror and his ruthless treatment of the overthrown dynasty had made him uneasy with the Church. |
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Titus, member of the Flavian dynasty who captured Jerusalem and completed the Colosseum. |
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Cnut's actions as a Viking conqueror and his ruthless treatment of the overthrown dynasty had made him uneasy with the Church. |
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Under the son and successor of Frederick Barbarossa, Henry VI, the Hohenstaufen dynasty reached its apex. |
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Sericulture, the rearing of silkworms, was first adopted by the Chinese during the Shang dynasty. |
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The theme of the Prince's Chamber is Tudor history, and 28 oil portraits painted on panels around the room depict members of the Tudor dynasty. |
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Other members of the dynasty possessing Celtic names include Ceawlin and Caedwalla. |
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Kenneth's rise can be placed in the context of the recent end of the previous dynasty, which had dominated Fortriu for two or four generations. |
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The Norman dynasty had a major political, cultural and military impact on medieval Europe and even the Near East. |
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Later Thailand was influenced by the south Indian Pallava dynasty and north Indian Gupta Empire. |
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From 1270 onwards for many centuries, the Solomonic dynasty ruled the Ethiopian Empire. |
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The term Far West became synonymous with Western Europe in China during the Ming dynasty. |
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Their territory could expand by royal intermarriage or merge with another state when the dynasty merged. |
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Zhu Yuanzhang would later rise to become the Hongwu Emperor, the first emperor of the Ming dynasty. |
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After the fall of the Yuan dynasty in 1368, the Mongols continued to rule the Northern Yuan dynasty in Mongolia homeland. |
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Monasteries and episcopal seats were shrewdly awarded to elites who supported the dynasty. |
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Even after the last Merovingian capitulary, kings of the dynasty continued to independently exercise some legal powers. |
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The absence of Frankish literature sources suggests that the Frankish language was forgotten rather rapidly after the early stage of the dynasty. |
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This continued through the Song dynasty, and by its peak power shifted from nobility to bureaucrats. |
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The men commemorated in Y Gododdin do not appear in the pedigrees of any Welsh dynasty. |
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This development was gradual and generally only completed in full by the Song dynasty. |
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He is considered to have been the founder of the Merovingian dynasty, which ruled the Frankish kingdom for the next two centuries. |
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To suggest the dynasty owed its accession to murder would have been less than sensitive. |
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The Umayyad dynasty conquered the Maghreb, the Iberian Peninsula, Narbonnese Gaul and Sindh. |
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Unfortunately, the part of Tacitus' Histories dealing with the reign of the Flavian dynasty is almost entirely lost. |
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With the succession of his sons, Severus founded the Severan dynasty, the last dynasty of the empire before the Crisis of the Third Century. |
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Many Muslims also went to China to trade, virtually dominating the import and export industry of the Song dynasty. |
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The Carolingian dynasty ruled France until 987, when Hugh Capet, Duke of France and Count of Paris, was crowned King of the Franks. |
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Since the second half of the 16th century the archbishops were drawn from the Bavaria Wittelsbach dynasty. |
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This precedent led in the long run to the fall of his dynasty, for it was a pattern repeated in future reigns. |
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Thereafter, until World War I, Austria's history was largely that of its ruling dynasty, the Habsburgs. |
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Prior to the death of Charlemagne, the Empire was divided among various members of the Carolingian dynasty. |
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The Varangians later assimilated into the Slavic population and became part of the first Rus' dynasty, the Rurik Dynasty. |
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Members of the Episcopal clergy were required to give oaths of allegiance to the reigning Hanoverian dynasty. |
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Poland began to form into a recognizable unitary and territorial entity around the middle of the 10th century under the Piast dynasty. |
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Foreign westerners made and sold sesame cakes in China during the Tang dynasty. |
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During the rule of the succeeding Hanoverian dynasty, power was gradually exercised more by parliament and the government. |
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The Tudor dynasty of Wales and England were female line descendants of the House of Dinefwr through their ancestor Owen Tudor. |
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It was during the Song dynasty that Han Chinese developed an aversion to dairy products and abandoned the dairy foods introduced earlier. |
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When Casimir the Great died in 1370, leaving no legitimate male heir, the Piast dynasty came to an end. |
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Osiris on a lapis lazuli pillar in the middle, flanked by Horus on the left, and Isis on the right, 22nd dynasty, Louvre. |
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By contrast, the Ming dynasty in China began once more to practice privatization, especially with regards to their manufacturing industries. |
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The Jagiellon dynasty spanned the late Middle Ages and early Modern Era of Polish history. |
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It was the next native Persian dynasty after the collapse of the Sassanid Persian empire, caused by the Arab conquest. |
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As a small country with larger neighbours, Qatar seeks to project influence and protect its state and ruling dynasty. |
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Clovis made Paris his capital and established the Merovingian dynasty, but his kingdom would not survive his death. |
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They had to compete with the Shunga Empire and then the Kanva dynasty of Magadha to establish their rule. |
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The Pala Empire was founded by Gopala I, it was ruled by a Buddhist dynasty from Bengal in the eastern region of the Indian subcontinent. |
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The Rajput Chauhan dynasty established its control over Delhi and Ajmer in the 10th century. |
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The worship of Egyptian deities in particular flourished under the Flavian dynasty, to an extent not seen again until the reign of Commodus. |
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The Mewar dynasty under Maharana Hammir defeated and captured Muhammad Tughlaq with the Bargujars as his main allies. |
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But, his defeat in the Battle of Khanwa consolidated the new Mughal dynasty in India. |
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The Shia Safavid dynasty rose to power in 1501 and later conquered all of Iran. |
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By the 19th century the British Empire had formally ended the Mughal dynasty in India. |
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Eventually, the dynasty becomes so weak as to allow its replacement by a new dynasty. |
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From the 3rd century CE, the Gupta dynasty oversaw the period referred to as ancient India's Golden Age. |
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Zoroastrianism was the state religion of the Sassanid dynasty which lasted until 651, when Persia was conquered by the Rashidun Caliphate. |
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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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They eventually gave way to the Zagwe dynasty who are famed for their rock cut architecture at Lalibela. |
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The founding Goryeo dynasty ruled until 1392, succeeded by the Joseon, which ruled for approximately 500 years. |
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The institution of the Grand Canal by the Qin dynasty and the Sui dynasty, mostly the Sui. |
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In 369 AD, General Huan Wen of the Eastern Jin dynasty connected the shallow river valleys of the Huai and the Yellow. |
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The city remained an important port until the middle of the Ming dynasty era, when its harbor slowly silted up. |
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His ancestry traced back through the dukes of Song to the Shang dynasty which had preceded the Zhou. |
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In 2006, the China Confucius Foundation commissioned a standard portrait of Confucius based on the Tang dynasty portrait by Wu Daozi. |
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The Han dynasty Records of the Grand Historian records that it had already become a place of pilgrimage for ministers. |
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The Han dynasty took over the governmental institutions of the Qin dynasty almost unchanged. |
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The Zhou dynasty was divided between the masses and the hereditary noblemen. |
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His writings blame the fall of the Qin dynasty simply on the education of the second emperor. |
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The vassals of Ormuz, the Shia Jarwanid dynasty came to rule eastern Arabia in the 14th century. |
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It flourished during the 13th and 14th century and during the Yuan dynasty became the largest and most important Taoist school in Northern China. |
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The Yuan dynasty was waning, and the emperor forced enormous teams to build new embankments for the river. |
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However, after his death in 1712, the Mughal dynasty sank into chaos and violent feuds. |
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Thereafter, the British East India Company became the protectors of the Mughal dynasty in Delhi. |
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It is often suggested that it derives from the arms of the powerful Geraldine or FitzGerald dynasty. |
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After his death in 960, war broke out between the Fairhair dynasty and the Earls of Lade in alliance with Danish kings. |
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The Abbassid dynasty took over the caliphate in 750 AD, founding Baghdad as its capital and as a centre of knowledge and learning. |
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The main dynasty of Wallachia was called Basarab, from which the current name of the region originated. |
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This followed the death of his unmarried and childless cousin, Queen Elizabeth I of England, the last monarch of the Tudor dynasty. |
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Chinese styles vary greatly from era to era and each one is traditionally named after the ruling dynasty. |
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Gregory's election to the throne of St Peter made his family the most distinguished clerical dynasty of the period. |
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About the time when Timisoara ruled in Magadha, a powerful kingdom rose in Persia under Cyrus, the founder of Achaemenian dynasty in Persia. |
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The decline of a dynasty or culture could also mean the extinction of its capital city, as occurred at Babylon and Cahokia. |
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Here the first major walls erected during the Ming dynasty cuts through the Ordos Desert to the eastern edge of the Yellow River loop. |
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The belief in ascending to Heaven after death became widespread in the Han dynasty. |
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Wales became a part of England when the Tudor dynasty conquered the region. |
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Feuds and marital alliances brought the Abel dynasty into a close connection with the German Duchy of Holstein by the 15th century. |
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As a descendant of Rhodri Mawr through his father Cadell, Hywel was a member of the Dinefwr branch of the dynasty. |
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From the accession of James VI and I in 1603, the Stuart dynasty ruled England in personal union with Scotland and Ireland. |
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During this war, a new dynasty originating in France, the Bourbons, was installed. |
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During the Middle Ages, several Indian dynasties were predominant, including the Gupta dynasty. |
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In contrast to Tibet, the dynasty eventually consolidated its power and now rules as the kings of Bhutan. |
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If Lachlan Murdochs Christmas cards were anything to go by, the next mogul in the Murdoch media dynasty will do things a little differently. |
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His son, Pepin the Short, seized the crown of Francia from the weakened Merovingians and founded the Carolingian dynasty. |
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The tripods were considered important artifacts, Chinese legends credit a Xia dynasty emperor with their construction. |
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A successor state of Charlemagne's empire, until 911 it was ruled by the Carolingian dynasty. |
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He was the younger brother of Titus and son of Vespasian, his two predecessors on the throne, and the last member of the Flavian dynasty. |
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The Merovingian dynasty was thereby replaced by the Carolingian dynasty, named after Charles Martel. |
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He also claims that a nation is not formed on the basis of dynasty, language, religion, geography, or shared interests. |
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Umar established the Rasulid dynasty on a firm foundation and expanded its territory to include the area from Dhofar to Mecca. |
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Ultimately, Edward's dynasty survived him by little more than two years, despite his military and administrative genius. |
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Andy Lau stars as a Tang dynasty detective in a beautifully designed adventure. |
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Ancient tradition said that Mycenae was founded by the Perseid dynasty and that the Atreids were outsiders. |
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The Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb on the Kowloon Peninsula is believed to have been built as a burial site during the Han dynasty. |
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Edward was one of the few male members of his dynasty to die of natural causes. |
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In any case, it is usual to count only the monarchs or heads of the family, and to number them sequentially up to the end of the dynasty. |
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Han Chinese scholar Liu Xiang established the first library classification system during the Han dynasty, and the first book notation system. |
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Tianyi Chamber, founded in 1561 by Fan Qin during the Ming dynasty, is the oldest existing library in China. |
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The Acts were passed during the reign of King Henry VIII of England, who came from the Welsh Tudor dynasty. |
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The Merotic people adopted an African-style matriarchal regime and set up a dynasty of queens, known collectively as the Candaces. |
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From the Han dynasty to the early Tang dynasty, Hong Kong was a part of Bao'an County. |
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According to later genealogies, his mother or grandmother was Nest ferch Cadell of the ruling dynasty in Powys. |
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Jibla was strategically near the Sulayhid dynasty source of wealth, the agricultural central highlands. |
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Several scholars point out that unlike the preceding Mongols, the Ming dynasty did not garrison permanent troops in Tibet. |
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The invasions were unsuccesful, yet both Dai Viet and Champa agreed to become tributary states to Yuan dynasty to avoid further conflicts. |
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His kingship was thought to contain elements of the early modern absolute monarchy as exemplified by the Tudor dynasty. |
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The Yufirid emir Abdullah ibn Qahtan attacked and burned Zabid in 989, severely weakening the Ziyadid dynasty. |
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Its culture played a crucial role in the Gutian Empire and especially during the Iranic Achaemenid dynasty that succeeded it. |
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During the dynasty of the Palaeologans it went through a critically long and desperate period. |
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The rise of the Ismaili Shia Sulayhid dynasty in the Yemeni highlands reduced their history to a series of intrigues. |
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By virtue of its location, the Ziyadid dynasty of Zabid developed a special relationship with Abyssinia. |
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This time he has not only taken up the assignment, but has also taken the vow to unseat the Nanda dynasty and coronate Chandragupta. |
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This name may have its origin in a letter sent in 607 and recorded in the official history of the Sui dynasty. |
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By the time he abdicated in 285 BC, in favour of one of his sons, the Ptolemaic dynasty was secure. |
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Until that night, the dynasty of the Dark Earth had held the nation in a death grip of control. |
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The Ottomans, a Sunni dynasty, fought several campaigns against the Safavids. |
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Queen Arwa moved the seat of the Sulayhid dynasty from Sana'a to Jibla, a small town in central Yemen near Ibb. |
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The Dinefwr dynasty under king Hywel Dda would unite Dyfed and Seisyllwg into the kingdom of Deheubarth in the early 10th century. |
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Philosopher Laozi was keeper of books in the earliest library in China, which belonged to the Imperial Zhou dynasty. |
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Several dynasties emerged from the ninth to 16th centuries, the Rasulid dynasty being the strongest and most prosperous. |
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The earliest record of the name Nihon appears in the Chinese historical records of the Tang dynasty, the Old Book of Tang. |
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Modern scholars debate whether the Ming dynasty had sovereignty over Tibet. |
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The Manchus then allied with former Ming general Wu Sangui and seized control of Beijing, which became the new capital of the Qing dynasty. |
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The later traditions were well established in south Thailand and Java by the 7th century, under the sponsorship of Srivijaya dynasty. |
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Originally built by the Rana dynasty and it was known as the largest palace of Nepal and in Asia. |
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The Thirtieth Dynasty was the last native ruling dynasty during the Pharaonic epoch. |
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At the same time, the Stuart dynasty was expected to maintain its adherence to Anglicanism. |
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Charles also inherited the tradition of political and dynastic enmity between the royal and the Burgundian ducal lines of the Valois dynasty. |
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A second period of disunity heralded the arrival of the first foreign ruling dynasty in Egypt, that of the Semitic Hyksos. |
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The Macedonian Greek general of Alexander, Ptolemy I Soter, founded the Ptolemaic dynasty. |
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The Hussain Shahi dynasty established royal libraries during the Bengal Sultanate. |
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In classical antiquity, a notable school of sculptural Hindu, Jain and Buddhist art developed in the Pala Empire and the Sena dynasty. |
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Building upon the technological achievements of the earlier Song dynasty, the Mongols also employed early cannons upon the decks of their ships. |
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From his own dynasty, the Habsburgs, he inherited Austria and other lands in central Europe. |
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King Edward VII authorized the use of finger bowls during his reign, deeming his dynasty to be sufficiently secure. |
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Power, a descendent from the legendary dynasty of Ghengis Khan, along with dazzling Lady Lightening, demonstrates herculean force. |
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The Chongzhen Emperor of China issued an edict banning smoking two years before his death and the overthrow of the Ming dynasty. |
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The Chola dynasty of medieval India was a dominant seapower in the Indian Ocean, an avid maritime trader and diplomatic entity with Song China. |
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The entire area passed in 1384 to the dukes of Burgundy, in 1477 to the Habsburg dynasty, and in 1556 to the kings of Spain. |
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Egypt under the Muhammad Ali dynasty remained nominally an Ottoman province. |
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John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever, founded the Astor dynasty in England. |
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This dynasty instituted imperial tradition in Rome and frustrated any attempt to reestablish a Republic. |
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The war revolved around the issue of control and influence over Korea under the rule of the Joseon dynasty. |
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The Franks, under the Carolingian dynasty, briefly established the Carolingian Empire during the later 8th and early 9th century. |
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In the early 10th century, the Ottonian dynasty had established itself in Germany, and was engaged in driving back the Magyars. |
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During the Ming dynasty, Jingdezhen porcelain become a source of imperial pride. |
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The Robertians, after becoming counts of Paris and dukes of France, became kings themselves and established the Capetian dynasty. |
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A phyllite carving of Shiva as Yoga Dakshinamurti, from the Pala dynasty and late 11th-century Bengal, is shown by John Eskenazi. |
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In the Ethiopian Highlands, the Solomonic dynasty established itself in the 13th century. |
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Owain Gwynedd was a member of the House of Aberffraw, the senior branch of the dynasty of Rhodri the Great. |
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This may indicate that Cerdic was a native Briton, and that his dynasty became anglicised over time. |
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Sinologist historians debate the population figures for each era in the Ming dynasty. |
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Smaller figures in pottery or wood were placed in tombs for many centuries afterwards, reaching a peak of quality in Tang dynasty tomb figures. |
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A massive increase in opium smoking in China was more or less directly instigated by the British trade deficit with Qing dynasty China. |
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Both groups remained politically distinct until Clovis, a Salian and a member of the Merovingian dynasty, unified Francia. |
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Around the 8th century the Sailendra dynasty rose in Kedu Plain and become the patron of Mahayana Buddhism. |
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In the 17th century, the Manchu conquered China and established the Qing dynasty. |
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The Saracens crossed the mountains to claim Ardo's Septimania, only to encounter the Basque dynasty of Aquitaine, always the allies of the Goths. |
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By 1636, most Inner Mongolian nobles had submitted to the Qing dynasty founded by the Manchus. |
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