Sentence examples for barbarian tribe from inspiring English sources

Athletes, poets, and successful warriors were awarded wreaths of different forms in Classical times, and the chief of a barbarian tribe customarily wore a distinctive helmet.

Dedicated in AD 113, it was built to commemorate two successful campaigns that the Emperor Trajan waged against the Dacians, a barbarian tribe from modern-day Romania.

The '59 Gaul, as Bordeaux wine was then known, was hugely hyped by the Bordelais (at that time a barbarian tribe called the Bituriges), who thus established a reputation lasting to this day for cunning, rapacity and the almost total lack of personality that marks the super-salesman.

In the war's immediate aftermath the Dardani, a barbarian tribe, swarmed across the northern border of Macedon, but Philip was able to repel this attack.

Having bribed the Cumans, another barbarian tribe, to come to his aid, he advanced against the Pechenegs, who were caught by surprise and annihilated at the Battle of Levounion on 28 April 1091.

There are three examples here, all revolving around the crushing of mythical and actual barbarian tribes.

The first major religious split began in the 4th century, when pressure from "barbarian" tribes led to the division of the empire into western and eastern parts.

Under his successor, Wallia (415 418), the Romans acknowledged the Visigoths as allies and encouraged them to campaign against the other barbarian tribes in the peninsula.

IN the spirit of barbarian tribes, beer gardens with no-frills décor and heavyweight glassware have invaded New York's bar scene.

Its sweep reached from Russia to Ireland, from the cave dwellers of France and the Norse sagas to the "barbarian" tribes described by Caesar and Tacitus.

From the time of Belisarius in the 6th century ad, the Byzantine army always supplemented its infantry and heavy cavalry with units of horse archers, usually consisting of mercenaries recruited from various barbarian tribes.