Sentence examples for central kingdom from inspiring English sources
Throughout most of history the "sacred world" was coextensive with a certain territory, and one could speak literally of Christian lands, the Jewish homeland, the Muslim world, the place of the noble people (Āryāvarta, Hindu), or the central kingdom (China).
This created a feeling held widely in the region that despite a decade of soothing talk from Beijing about good-neighbourliness and win-win relations, China was reverting to an old form of behaviour, whether that of the wounded revanchist, or the central kingdom demanding obeisance.
At Bernard's prompting, the Pope declared the Aragonese marriage void, but Alfonso continued to be involved in civil strife in the central kingdom until he eventually gave up his claims in favour of his stepson after the death of Urraca (1126).
That has never been the Chinese experience: through the longest period of Chinese history, they were the dominant country, and they thought of the world as they being the central kingdom and all other countries being in some kind of tributary relationship to them.
Between the 16th and 18th centuries, Nāyars in the central kingdoms of Calicut, Walluvanad, Palghat, and Cochin had highly unusual marriage customs that have been much studied.
It was absorbed into the later kingdoms of Singasari and Majapahit and then by the central Java kingdom of Mataram.
Some years later the central Javanese kingdom of Mataram came to the fore.
Almost contemporary with Chenla was the rise of the central Javanese kingdom.
In the 1620s Sultan Agung, ruler of the central Javanese kingdom of Mataram and representative of the old and highly sophisticated Javanese civilization, sought to extend his power over Bantam (near present-day Banten) in western Java.
Besides being the only functioning synagogue in Brno, she said, Agudas Achim was the only operating synagogue in all of Moravia, the ancient Central European kingdom that makes up the eastern half of today's Czech Republic.
The art of the Shailendra dynasty testifies to the imperial and maritime power of the central Javanese kingdom, which seems to have influenced politics and art in Khmer Cambodia.
