Sentence examples for strong kingdom from inspiring English sources

In the Late Mycenaean period (1400 1100 bce) numerous settlements were founded; Laconia was a strong kingdom ruled by Menelaus, according to Homer.

To the north of this latter river, the Dacians had been organized into a strong kingdom, ruled by Decebalus and centring on modern Romania; in 85 they raided southward across the Danube, and in the next year they defeated the Roman punitive expedition.

A new era opened when Nūr al-Dīn ibn Zangī, a powerful Turkish emir (military commander), captured the city in 1154 and made it once again the capital of a strong kingdom and the base for his military campaigns against the Crusaders.

She inherited a relatively strong kingdom, but the centrifugal tendencies fostered by the great nobles were far from being quelled.

When he succeeded his father to the throne in 336 BC, after Philip was assassinated, Alexander inherited a strong kingdom and an experienced army.

Following the emergence of the Polish nation, a series of rulers converted the population to Christianity, created a strong kingdom and integrated Poland into the European culture.

In Burma and Siam alone among the states of Southeast Asia, native arts continued to flourish because, after centuries of warfare, they finally emerged as strong kingdoms.

Mzilikazi was a statesman of considerable stature, able to weld the many conquered tribes into a strong, centralized kingdom.

However, Asturian leadership did not go unchallenged: King Sancho I Garcés (905 926) began to forge a strong Basque kingdom with its centre at Pamplona in Navarre, and Count Wilfred of Barcelona (873 898)—whose descendants were to govern Catalonia until the 15th century—asserted his independence from the Franks by extending his rule over several small Catalan counties.

In this way they established the first strong Antemoro kingdom.

With its growth as the strongest Sinhalese kingdom, the city of Anuradhapura and the nearby settlements flourished.