The most powerful among them, commanding the greatest respect, in the Madhyadesha ( Middle country ) was the Kuru / Vatsa-Panchala which incorporated the two families of Kuru and Puru ( and the earlier Bhāratas ) and of which the Panchalas was a confederation of lesser-known tribes.

** Kuru ( archaeology ), an Indo-Aryan ethnic group

* King Kuru ( Hindu mythology ), the imputed ancestral king of Indo-Aryan Kuru tribe

According to the Indian epic poem Mahābhārata, a dynastic succession struggle between two groups of cousins of an Indo-Aryan kingdom called Kuru, the Kauravas and Pandavas, for the throne of Hastinapura resulted in the Kurukshetra War in which a number of ancient kingdoms participated as allies of the rival groups.

Witzel aims at indicating the emergence of the Kuru tribe in the Delhi area ( 1989, 1995, 1997, 2003 ), its seminal culture and its political dominance, as well as studying the origin of late Vedic polities and the first Indian empire in eastern North India ( 1995, 1997, 2003, 2010 ).

The two sides to the war were the Pandavas and the Kauravas ( the official Kuru tribe now ruling both Hastinapura and Indraprastha ) and their allies.

The Kuru kingdom corresponds to the Black and Red Ware and Painted Grey Ware cultures and to the beginning of the Iron Age in South Asia, around 1000 BCE, as well as with the composition of the Atharvaveda, the first Vedic text to mention iron, as, literally " black metal.

Vasu, a descendant of Kuru conquers the Yadava kingdom of Cedi, and establishes himself there.

According to History of Punjab: " There is no doubt that the Kambojas, Daradas, Kekaya | Kaikayas, Madras, Pauravas, Yaudheya s, Malavas, Saindhavas and Kuru ( kingdom ) | Kuru s had jointly contributed to the heroic tradition and composite culture of ancient Punjab ".

When the princes come of age, Yudhisthira is given half the kingdom and made king of Indraprastha, so as to avoid a clash with the Kaurava princes over the whole Kuru kingdom.

Gandhari's marriage was arranged to Dhritarashtra, the eldest prince of the Kuru kingdom, a region in Delhi and Haryana region.

Kripacharya refused Karna his duel, asking first for his clan and kingdom ; for according to the rules of duelling, only a prince could challenge Arjuna to a duel since he was a prince of the Kuru house.

Kingdom of Cochin ( also known as Perumpadappu Swaroopam, Mada-rajyam, Gosree Rajyam, or Kuru Swaroopam ; Malayalam: ക ൊ ച ് ച ി or പ െ ര ു മ ് പടപ ് പ ്‌ ) was a late medieval Hindu kingdom and later Princely State on the Malabar Coast, South India.

Trying to maintain peace, Dhritarashtra gave Yudhisthira half the Kuru kingdom, albeit the lands which were arid, unprosperous and scantily populated, known as Khandavaprastha.

* Kuru ( kingdom ), the Indian kingdom

Other historians like M. Witzel have corroborated that the general setting of the epic has a historical precedent in Iron Age ( Vedic ) India, where the Kuru kingdom was the center of political power during roughly 1200 to 800 BCE.

The aftermath of the Mahabharata yuddh is believed to have taken place in the area between the Upper Doab and Delhi, ( in what was Kuru Mahajanapada ), during the reign of the Pandava king Yudhisthira.

Bhima's unrestrained, brutal beatings during childhood left psychological scars on him, he had also witnessed how Bhima would torment his weaker younger brothers and the rift was further fueled by the Kuru elders ' partiality towards the Pandavas.

However, the general cultural background of the Ramayana is one of the post-urbanization period of the eastern part of North India, while the Mahabharata reflects the Kuru areas west of this, from the Rigvedic to the late Vedic period.

This name was used to indicate their cultural differences with the Vedic culture, prevailed in the Kuru – Panchala Kingdoms.

This is to denote that their culture was outside or different from the Vedic culture, prevailing in the Kuru, Panchala and other kingdoms of the Gangetic plain.

Spiegel also regards Kamboja / Kambujiya ( Cambyses ) and Kuru / Kyros ( Cyrus ) as the names of two pre-historic / legendary heroes of the Indo-Iranians ( i. e. prior to their split into Indo-Aryans and Iranians ) which were later revived naturally in the royal family of the Achaemenes and further opines that the myths about Cyrus were largely due to the confusion between the historical and the legendary heroes of the prehistoric period

Spiegel also regards Kamboja / Kambujiya ( Cambyses ) and Kuru / Kyros ( Cyrus ) as the names of two pre-historic / legendary heroes of the Indo-Iranians ( i. e. prior to their split into Indo-Aryans and Iranians ) which were later revived naturally in the royal family of the Achaemenes and further opines that the myths about Cyrus were largely due to the confusion between the historical and the legendary heroes of the prehistoric period

After a long period, a saint named Kuru visited Kailash.

Iron Age kingdoms rule India — Panchala, Kuru ( referred in Mahabharata ), Kosala, Videha.

* 600 BC: India — Age of the Mahajanapadas — 16 great kingdoms rule India — Kasi, Kosala, Anga, Magadha, Vajji ( or Vriji ), Malla, Chedi, Vatsa ( or Vamsa ), Kuru, Panchala, Machcha ( or Matsya ), Surasena, Assaka, Avanti, Gandhara, Kamboja

Vyasa declared to Satyavati that due to Ambika's cruelty, her son would be blind ( but strong ) and have a hundred sons – later known as Kauravas ( descendants of Kuru ).

In the Hindu epic Mahabharata, Yudhisthira ( Sanskrit: य ु ध ि ष ् ठ ि र, meaning " steady in war ", from yudh meaning war, and sthira meaning steady, also Bharata ( descendant of the line of Bharata ) and Ajatashatru ( one without enemies )), the eldest son of King Pandu and Queen Kunti, was king of Indraprastha and later of Hastinapura ( Kuru ).

It has been a part of the Kuru region in North India.

The Arthashastra of Kautiliya, whose oldest layer may go back to the 4th century BCE also talks of several martial republics and specifically refers to the Srenis ( warrior-bands ) of the Kambojas, Saurashtra language | Surastras and some other frontier tribes as belonging to varta-Shastr-opajivin class ( i. e., living by the profession of arms and varta ), while the Madraka, Malla ( India ) | Malla, the The Kurus | Kuru, etc., clans are called Raja-shabd-opajivins class ( i. e., using the title of Raja ).

Drawing a distinction between the Khari of Delhi and the Khari of the extreme western parts of Western Uttar Pradesh, he advocated that the former retain the name Khariboli while the latter be renamed to Kauravi, after the Kuru Kingdom of ancient India.

* Kuru ( India )

In the Ashtadhyayi ( probably 4th century BCE ), Pāṇini describes the Kamboja janapada as " one of the fifteen powerful Kshatriya janapadas " of his times, " inhabited and ruled by Kamboja Kshatriyas ", implying that the Kambojas were both Indo-Aryan and Kshatriya.

The powerful Ghilzai tribe revolted against the severity of his measures several times.

According to Harry W. Fritz, " All earlier Missouri River travelers had warned of this powerful and aggressive tribe, determined to block free trade on the river.

“ Kashubians and Slavs are what remains of the once powerful Pomeranian tribe and they are the only inheritors of the name Pomeranians .”

In 1163, the vizier to the Fatimid caliph al-Adid, Shawar, had been driven out of Egypt by rival Dirgham, a member of the powerful Banu Ruzzaik tribe.

He stated that the Klickitat tribe was formerly " powerful ", yet had been inundated by white civilization's " whiskey and Small pox.

In early 6 CE, before Varus was commander on the Rhine, it was Legatus Gaius Sentius Saturninus and Consul Legatus Marcus Aemilius Lepidus under Tiberius who led an army of 65, 000 heavy infantry legionaries, 10, 000 – 20, 000 cavalrymen, archers, 10, 000 – 20, 000 civilians ( 13 legions & entourage, probably about 100, 000 + men ) and was planning a major attack on Maroboduus, the king of the Marcomanni, a tribe of the Suebi who had fled the attacks of Drusus I in 9 BCE into the territory of the Boii, where they formed a powerful tribal alliance with the Hermunduri, Quadi, Semnones, Lugians, Zumi, Butones, Mugilones, Sibini and Langobards.

Lawrence persuades Auda abu Tayi ( Anthony Quinn ), the leader of the powerful local Howeitat tribe, to turn against the Turks.

The Trinovantes, a powerful tribe, offer to become Rome's allies, and several other British tribes follow suit.

# Thirdly ( 4. 11 ), in the version which Herodotus said he believed most, the Scythians came from a more southern part of Central Asia, until a war with the Massagetae ( a powerful tribe of steppe nomads who lived just northeast of Persia ) forced them westward.

While the interpretation of this event varied from tribe to tribe, one consensus was universally accepted: the powerful earthquake had to have meant something.

Conversely, Eldad ha-Dani argued that the tribe of Simeon had become quite powerful, taking tribute from 25 other kingdoms, some of which were Arabians ; though he names their location, surviving versions of his manuscripts differ as to whether it was the land of the Khazars or of the Chaldeans-Chaldeans would be an anachronism, though it could possibly refer to Buyid Dynasty Persia.

Uthman was born into the Umayyad clan of Mecca, a powerful family of the Quraish tribe.

They named it after the historic Dakota Sioux tribe, who were powerful in the area of Nebraska and South Dakota.

The Miami tribe was the most powerful group of Indians in the region, and Francois Godfroy ( who was half French ) was one of their chiefs.

They were aligned with the course of Watling Street and led into the heartlands of the Catuvellauni, who at the time of Caesar's invasion of 54 BC were Britain's most powerful tribe.

The Silures were a powerful and warlike tribe of ancient Britain, occupying approximately the counties of Monmouthshire, Breconshire and Glamorganshire of present day South Wales ; and possibly Gloucestershire and Herefordshire of present day England.

Cotys assisted the Hales, leader of Triballi, a powerful Thracian tribe of Moesia, against Abdera.

They acted as coastal defences against attacks by the Scoti in Ireland and by the Caledonii, the most powerful tribe in what we now call Scotland.

The region was controlled by the powerful Iroquois Confederation's member tribe, the Mohawk, prior to the entry of Europeans into the area.

The Nervii were an ancient Germanic tribe, and one of the most powerful Belgic tribes ; living in the northeastern hinterlands of Gaul, they were known to trek long distances to engage in various wars and functions.

At the time, only Torobaikhu, a leader of the Khoshud tribe could claim the title of Khan while Baatur Dalai Taishi of the Dorbods was considered the most powerful Oirat chief.

Shortly before Julius Caesar's invasion of Britain in 55 and 54 BC, the Trinovantes were considered the most powerful tribe in Britain.

While LeFlore was not said to be popular among the full-blood tribal men, he became powerful and influential within the tribe at an early age, largely because of his mother's clan and maternal uncle's position and his own skills.