Sentence examples for iii proclaimed from inspiring English sources
However, when the heterodox caliphate of the Fāṭimids developed in Tunis after 910, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān III proclaimed himself caliph and adopted the caliphal title of al-Nāṣir in 929.
In 929, Emir Abd al-Rahman III proclaimed the Caliphate of Córdoba and a decade later, artisans and masons brought from around the Muslim world were hard at work creating Madinat al-Zahra, the caliph's adminstrative complex of ornate palaces, magnificent mosques and public baths just outside the city, named for his favorite wife.
Though troubled by occasional revolt, Córdoba grew rapidly under Umayyad rule; and after ʿAbd al-Raḥmān III proclaimed himself caliph of the West in 929, it became the largest and probably the most cultured city in Europe, with a population of some 100,000 in 1000.
Ranavalona III was proclaimed queen upon the death of her predecessor, Queen Ranavalona II, on July 13 , 1883 and moved into Tsarahafatra, a wooden house on the grounds of the royal Rova complex in Antananarivo.
Once this goal was achieved, Karīm Khan and ʿAlī Mardān agreed that Shah Sulṭān Ḥusayn Ṣafavī's grandson, a boy named Abū Ṭurāb, should be proclaimed Shah Ismāʿīl III in order to cement popular support for their joint rule.
Henry had tried to have John officially proclaimed King of Ireland, but Pope Lucius III would not agree.
Egyptologists have noted that instead of hiding their non-royal origins, Neferhotep I, his predecessor Sobekhotep III, and his successor Sobekhotep IV, remarkably proclaimed them on their stelae and scarab seals.
At the top of the page, ½-inch letters proclaimed the headline: "Russia drops the Big One -- World War III Declared".
The relationship between the two remained close, and in 1330, when the heirless Andronikos III (John V was born in 1332) fell ill he insisted that Kantakouzenos be proclaimed Emperor or regent after his death.
After the Legate's death (Jan . 15 , 1208 Pope Innocent III proclaimed the crusade, which Raymond joined, perhaps as penance.
WHEN King George III proclaimed in 1763 that Canada's indigenous peoples had rights to their ancestral lands, it bought peace with the locals who outnumbered and sometimes outfought the British colonists.
