Sentence examples for princedom from inspiring English sources

From them arose the house of Maʿn, which established a princedom over the whole of Mount Lebanon and was accepted by Christians and Druze alike.

Pinsk was first mentioned in 1097 and was the seat of a Russian princedom.

The county is named for the medieval Welsh princedom of Gwynedd, which, under the Llewellyns, proudly held out against the territorial ambitions of Edward I of England in the late 13th century.

It was one of the chief towns of Kievan Rus and the centre of a princedom.

Sacked by Moscow in 1371 and by the Tatars in 1372 and 1378, it became the seat of the Ryazan princedom in the 15th century.

First mentioned in 1146 and the seat of a minor princedom in the 13th century, Yelets long served as a southern frontier fortress.

Celebrating the 1,025th anniversary of the baptism of Kyivan Rus, a medieval federation of eastern Slavic princedoms, both sent a clear message: Don't stray from the common space of our Russian-Orthodox civilisation.The event took place amid rising concerns in Russia over Ukraine's future.

But the Thirty Years' War was centred around the modern territory of Germany, which owed a common allegiance to the Habsburg emperors, but was a patchwork of princedoms, bishoprics and cities.

Oil-flush Abu Dhabi says it will finance more infrastructure projects in the poorer princedoms that make up the United Arab Emirates.

In the ecclesiastical princedoms the ascendancy of an archbishop or a bishop was contested by the cathedral chapter, which had become a preserve of the nobility.

It was founded by Vladimir I, grand prince of Kiev, in the 10th century and became the capital of one of the chief princedoms of Kievan Rus.