Byzantium, shaken by uprisings in its non-Greek possessions, desperately needed to recruit Variagi mercenaries.
Burma, renamed Myanmar by one of those regimes, has been repeatedly shaken by uprisings, most recently in 2007.
Homs has been surrounded by security forces and troops since mid-March, when the popular uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began, inspired by uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia.
It was the highest reported death toll in a single day since the uprising against Assad's rule, inspired by uprisings across the Arab world, erupted last March.
The early years of his reign were disturbed by uprisings in the eastern region of the country by workers and wealthier freeholders, who opposed domination by landed aristocrats.
Sādāt's assassination on October 6 , 1981 by militant soldiers associated with Islamic Jihad was greeted in Egypt by uprisings in some areas but mostly by a deafening calm.
The president enjoys high approval ratings, and not only in government-sponsored polls.Yet the president has appeared sufficiently rattled by uprisings elsewhere to launch a public relations counter-offensive.
A powerful bomb blast in a crowded Moroccan cafe killed at least 14 people, wounded dozens of others and shattered the relative calm in a corner of the Arab world overwhelmed by uprisings and deadly government crackdowns.
In mid-March, inspired by uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia that toppled the autocratic governments there, Syrians took to the streets, many of their demands mirroring long-promised reforms, among them a new law on formation of political parties.
