At the beginning of his reign he made a treaty with the Arabs whereby they paid increased tribute and agreed to joint sovereignty over Cyprus, Armenia, and Georgia.
Athenian participation in the Peloponnesian War (431 404) placed further strains on the allies: increased tribute to finance the war and increased military support to replace Athenian losses were demanded.
In order to resist Tripolitanian demands for increased tribute, the Sardinian king sent a squadron to force Tripoli to a favorable peace treaty.
The Moldavian prince, realizing that a future war with Mehmed could not be avoided, tried to gain time by increasing his tribute to the Porte by 50 percent (to 3,000 ducats); and also sent an envoy to Constantinople with gifts for the sultan.
Afterwards, you could hear a pin drop!" Bert's audience changed to reflect the increasing tributes paid by the incoming vanguard of young songwriters.
Mucianus and Vespasian increased the tribute of the provinces, and kept a watchful eye upon the treasury officials.
However, strained relations between the Assyrians and the Qedarites meant that she ruled for only a brief period, with Esarhaddon recognizing Hazael as the king of Qedar after he increased his tribute to the Assyrian monarch by 65 camels.
Jason, himself thoroughly Hellenized, furthermore promised to increase the tribute paid by the city and to establish within it the infrastructure of a Greek Polis, including a gymnasium and an ephebion.
The Avar army, however, was decimated by a plague, and a treaty was quickly concluded, whereby the Avars retreated beyond the Danube in exchange for an increased annual tribute of 120,000 solidi.
As the cult of Parsons has continued to grow, there has also been an increasing glut of tribute concerts and albums, some of them quite good and featuring admirers like Elvis Costello, Sheryl Crow and Beck.
They are the descendents of Ligurian fishermen who settled an island further south off the Tunisian coast in the 16th century to hunt for coral until declining stocks and increasing demands for tribute from a Tunisian ruler convinced them in 1738 to take up an offer from the King of Sardinia to transfer to San Pietro.
