Ptolemy was his mother's co-ruler, killed by Octavian, later the emperor Augustus, after Cleopatra's death in 30.
Having spent nearly a decade in the bush, and having been taught by their commanders that Rwanda's Tutsi rulers kill Hutus on principle, they face a culture shock when they come home and realise that all is well, he explains.In two months at the camp, they are taught practical skills, such as how to start a carpentry business or open a bank account.
In 1380 Mehmed II, the last Eretna ruler, was killed, and Burhaneddin, a former vizier, proclaimed himself sultan over Eretna lands.
Ṣadaqah, however, proved to be too threatening to Muḥammad, and the Mazyadid ruler was killed in a battle with Seljuq armies sent out against him early in 1108.
Diplomats said that Robert Guei, a former military ruler, was killed, but the government said the situation was under control.Bullets and ballotsElection violence continued in Indian-administered Kashmir as Islamic militants killed two ruling-party activists in Srinagar.
The head of the Russian Orthodox church has backed what is planned to be Russia's first monument to Ivan the Terrible, the controversial ruler who killed his own son.
A monument has even been unveiled to Ivan the Terrible, a ruthless ruler who killed his own son, on the basis that he doubled Russia's territory.Under Putin, Russians are encouraged to see history as a long list of achievements, with darker elements such as Stalin's purges and the Gulag brushed to one side.
Erdogan ramped up pressure on Saudi Arabia after U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a critic of the Saudi rulers, was killed at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, where he had gone to pick up documents related to his upcoming marriage.
In Zoroastrian understanding, boars embodied the warrior virtue of aggressive courage; for a ruler to kill one was to demonstrate matching courage.
He mentioned reading a history of Jerusalem in which a mad ruler began killing dozens of courtiers and ordering the hands chopped off the women of the court.
