Sentence examples for federation of tribes from inspiring English sources

A scion of the powerful Shammar federation of tribes, which straddles the border with Syria, Mr Yawar could help stop the flow of jihadi zealots into the country.

Somalia has never been a nation-state as much as it has been a loosely governed federation of tribes — with fierce reverence for the land their cattle graze and a distaste for trespassers that ought be better respected.

The turnabout began last September, when a federation of tribes in the Ramadi area came together as the Anbar Salvation Council to oppose the fundamentalist militants of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia.

Historian Israel Eph'al writes that the "breadth of Qedarite distribution suggests a federation of tribes with various sub-divisions".

In those areas, semisedentary peoples had established villages, and, among the Iroquois and the Cherokee, powerful federations of tribes had been formed.

The Yahwist's account, produced at the height of the glory of the Davidic monarchy, told the story of the federation of the tribes of Israel, now a single kingdom under Solomon with a focus on Zion and Jerusalem, the metropolis of the federation.

Once a group expanded into a federation of clans or tribes, religious organization became necessary.

The country was little more than a loose federation of regions and tribes before Colonel Qaddafi came to power.

Anonymous's statement that Zoltán succeeded his father as grand prince, or even the idea that Zoltán ever ruled the federation of the Hungarian tribes have also been challenged.

895) wasaccording to the uniform account of Hungarian chroniclesthe first head of the "loose federation" of the Hungarian tribes from around 850. Whether he was the sacred ruler (kende) of the Hungarians, or their military leader (gyula) is subject to scholarly debate.

Antae, also spelled Antes, federation of eastern Slavic nomadic tribes known by the 3rd century ad, dwelling in southern Russia between the Dnieper and Dniester rivers.